“Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef” - Tod Robbins

Art is the greatest deception of all; a lie that reveals the truth. By giving yourself over to that lie you are able to experience something amazing. We  allow the medium of film to deceive us, and in doing so take us on amazing adventures; positive illusions based on deception. Magic requires that you are willingly complicit in the deception, meaning that you essentially deceive yourself.

Magic is an advanced deception game. A piece of experimental psychology informed by imagination, aesthetics, interaction, skill and showmanship. The power is not in the trick we think we see, it’s the act itself, the moment the magician creates, the way it makes us feel.

Like any other discipline, mastery of magic in any form will take many years of hard work. Almost everything I do requires extreme levels of skill developed over many years by many hours of research, experimentation and practice. My job is to hide that work, to make it look effortless and impossible. To create a moment of magic.

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