do you believe in magic?

Thanks for the response Gwenneth. 

The line about "magic" is a joke. The rest is not. I really do believe in "tricks" . . .

Complex topic, no? Writing the previous post I spent some time staring at the screen thinking about the relationship between artist, artistic process and an audience - how an artists involvement in describing the work (concepts, process etc), and involvement in its dissemination, can be helpful and also a hindrance (often depending on who's involved of course). There is a Frank Zappa album called "Shut up and play your guitar". Often I feel that I should just stop talking. Or I could just endlessly talk about being silent with a satisfying sense of irony.