prestidigitate

His portfolio, Prestidigitate, examines travel, childhood and conceit through poems, stories and essays.

As Ludlam wrote in an essay on performance, “I like to give myself up to a role: enter a trancelike state, burn energy, aggrandize through influence, juggle, prestidigitate and ventriloquize.”

I am a magician, and one or two little things have happened of late to make me wish to prestidigitate in public.