WZRD

There are many books that explain how magic works.
Far fewer question what magic is.
WZRD firmly belongs to this second category.

If one had to sum it up in one word, WZRD is a book about mystery — not as a problem to solve, but as something to handle with care.
If more words were available, one would say it is a book about secrets, silence, satire, and witchcraft. About birds and bards, books and breath.
There are tricks in these pages, of course — but confusing method with meaning is the oldest form of misdirection.

As magicians and mentalists, we learn techniques.
We learn structures.
We learn to control outcomes.
And at some point, that is no longer enough.

This book is not an exploration of the mechanics of deception, but of what surrounds them: the pause, the weight of the unspeakable, the tension between showing and withholding, the ethics of secrecy, the opening of closed hands.
It offers neither systems nor formulas.
It is not interested in killer tricks, but in those that revive.

Through essays, fragments, visual compositions, personal reflections, and practical ideas drawn from real interactions, WZRD explores what happens between gestures — where meaning is felt rather than explained.

Some pages resemble field notes.
Others resemble rituals, confessions, or marginalia.
Some offer concrete techniques.
Others offer nothing more than a question, and space to linger on it.

WZRD is a book to be read slowly.
It resists linear reading.
It invites wandering.
It rewards attention.

It is a book to open, close, and return to — not to extract information, but to recalibrate the way one views their work, their audience, and the role one chooses to assume when entering mystery.

Designed as a book-object, WZRD is as much to be seen as to be read.
Photography, typography, quotations, and text intertwine to form an immersive and contemplative experience — closer to an artistic publication than an instruction manual.

Table of Content

12 — MA
The presence in absence

14 — FOOLS AND FANGS
A performer’s dilemma

22 — TELLUS

24 — BUT NOTHING LIKE THIS

32 — WIZARD
Directions

36 — PRESHOW
A consideration

39 — A TRUE STORY ABOUT LANGUAGE

45 — CASSIDY’S CARD MEMORY

56 — AGENCY

66 — FAROLAND

69 — BEYOND THE VEIL

72 — ON THE PREDICTION OF NUMBERS

76 — WIZARD IN A DISENCHANTED WORLD

80 — NINE

86 — MEMORY AND MEANING

90 — BEYOND DECEPTION

Highlights

• A deep reflection on what gives meaning and impact to a magical moment, beyond method.

• Ideas drawn from the real practice of mentalism and performance, applicable to your work.

• Original approaches to pre-show, memory, prediction, and language.

• A rare look at the role of the magician as creator of experience and bearer of mystery.

• A visual and immersive book-magazine, designed to be read, browsed, and revisited.

There are many books that explain how magic works.
Far fewer question what magic is.
WZRD firmly belongs to this second category.

If one had to sum it up in one word, WZRD is a book about mystery — not as a problem to solve, but as something to handle with care.
If more words were available, one would say it is a book about secrets, silence, satire, and witchcraft. About birds and bards, books and breath.
There are tricks in these pages, of course — but confusing method with meaning is the oldest form of misdirection.

As magicians and mentalists, we learn techniques.
We learn structures.
We learn to control outcomes.
And at some point, that is no longer enough.

This book is not an exploration of the mechanics of deception, but of what surrounds them: the pause, the weight of the unspeakable, the tension between showing and withholding, the ethics of secrecy, the opening of closed hands.
It offers neither systems nor formulas.
It is not interested in killer tricks, but in those that revive.

Through essays, fragments, visual compositions, personal reflections, and practical ideas drawn from real interactions, WZRD explores what happens between gestures — where meaning is felt rather than explained.

Some pages resemble field notes.
Others resemble rituals, confessions, or marginalia.
Some offer concrete techniques.
Others offer nothing more than a question, and space to linger on it.

WZRD is a book to be read slowly.
It resists linear reading.
It invites wandering.
It rewards attention.

It is a book to open, close, and return to — not to extract information, but to recalibrate the way one views their work, their audience, and the role one chooses to assume when entering mystery.

Designed as a book-object, WZRD is as much to be seen as to be read.
Photography, typography, quotations, and text intertwine to form an immersive and contemplative experience — closer to an artistic publication than an instruction manual.

Table of Content

12 — MA
The presence in absence

14 — FOOLS AND FANGS
A performer’s dilemma

22 — TELLUS

24 — BUT NOTHING LIKE THIS

32 — WIZARD
Directions

36 — PRESHOW
A consideration

39 — A TRUE STORY ABOUT LANGUAGE

45 — CASSIDY’S CARD MEMORY

56 — AGENCY

66 — FAROLAND

69 — BEYOND THE VEIL

72 — ON THE PREDICTION OF NUMBERS

76 — WIZARD IN A DISENCHANTED WORLD

80 — NINE

86 — MEMORY AND MEANING

90 — BEYOND DECEPTION

Highlights

• A deep reflection on what gives meaning and impact to a magical moment, beyond method.

• Ideas drawn from the real practice of mentalism and performance, applicable to your work.

• Original approaches to pre-show, memory, prediction, and language.

• A rare look at the role of the magician as creator of experience and bearer of mystery.

• A visual and immersive book-magazine, designed to be read, browsed, and revisited.

• A deep reflection on what gives meaning and impact to a magical moment, beyond method.

• Ideas drawn from the real practice of mentalism and performance, applicable to your work.

• Original approaches to pre-show, memory, prediction, and language.

• A rare look at the role of the magician as creator of experience and bearer of mystery.

• A visual and immersive book-magazine, designed to be read, browsed, and revisited.