You may may struggle to grasp how messy I am without experiencing my filth first hand. My show will leave your floor covered in loose salt, milk and water drips, cookie crumbs and wrappers and chewed up or torn pieces of playing cards or paper, also popped balloons. My act is heavily inspired by, but nowhere near as good as, the Great Rocco, who famously scatters the stage with his magical detritus. He makes heaps of food appear like pretzels, grapes, wine, peanuts and chocolate and just tosses them on the floor. My favourite trick of his is his milk to ice cream illusion when he hides an icecream up his sleeve, not coated or covered in anything to protect the lining of his jacket. He is a true artist and although that sounds like a joke, I don't mean it to be. His act is actually one of the most entertaining performances I've seen. I saw a lecture of his once, he had these huge piles of props on tables. These objects were not organised in any way, just loosely tossed in a heap. He opened by saying "I know this looks like a huge pile of junk, but these are actually piles of miracles". His talk seemed to have no structure, he just rifled through these mounds randomly pulling things out and doing tricks with them. It was awesome. You can do magic with anything, I don't understand why magicians restrict themselves so much to just using coins and playing cards.

I've been building props in my workshop quite often recently. I have no woodworking training and but am teaching myself slowly. I've also been creating some objects with acrylic (which is brittle and therefore quite frustrating to cut or drill holes through). I'm not very precise with my measurements. So far, my creations have so far looked a bit wonky but they are functional and don't look terrible. Nothing has spontaneously broken or fallen apart during a performance. I've made three special wooden tables that look deceptively thin. Today I constructed a heptagonal sided prism box with a surprisingly large secret compartment that fills two thirds of the volume, yet it still looks completely empty. Construction was almost finished when I realised I had forgotten to give it a lid, meaning that people would need to just taky word that things were appearing or vanishing inside. I created a gimmicked jug for making liquids appear or disappear. I can now transform milk into a sock and make a deodorant can appear in my sock. I've created a method for making an empty box of cookies fill up, although I've realised this trick can be very risky with children and can easily lead to chaos. I made a special set of boxes that all fit inside of each other in which an object borrowed from a spectator might appear inside, I was thinking of stealing someone's wallet and then having it turn up inside these containers.