Whether it is to make a dramatic back round or a darin escape, smoke has been used by performance ma icians for decades to make us question what we see. conjure to make somethin appear unexpectedly or seemin ly from nowhere “The ma ician takes the ordinary somethin and makes it do somethin extraordinary. Now you're lookin for the secret… but you won't find it, because of course you're not really lookin . You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled” -The Presti e (2006)