In 2012, we had to make a book of our work.
I called my book, The Pledge.
www.blurb.co.uk/b/3716969-the-pledge
I named it The Pledge, due to the Film, ‘The Prestige’ (2006). The film is about Magic and Illusions, in which I find my Art very close to. In the film, you get to know the three parts of a magic trick. The Pledge, The Turn, and the Prestige. The following, is from the IMDB website:
Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called “The Pledge”. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course… it probably isn’t. The second act is called “The Turn”. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you’re looking for the secret… but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn’t clap yet. Because making something disappear isn’t enough; you have to bring it back. That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call “The Prestige”.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/quotes
I would be making a book for each year of my University course, finishing it of with the book, The Prestige.
I was in my final year, ready to do the second of my books, The Turn. One day, out of the blue, on the 4th of December 2013, I had a severe Stroke. It turns out the Stroke that I had, was The Turn.
Later I found out, this was all apart of the plan. I was meant to have the Stroke. The second act is called “The Turn”. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. (The Prestige, 2006). I knew I was meant to finish the course. I had to do something ‘extraordinary’. All my work I done before my Stroke, has to be forgotten. I am a New Artist now! Welcome to ‘Prestige’…
