"red & black"(#143)

"RED & BLACK"(#143)

Take a deck of cards. Split them in to 2 piles. Red and Black. Stack the deck so that it alternates red-black-red-black all theway through. Now in performance you talk about par-optic vision and how it's possible, if you just trust yourself, to sense colours with the finger tips. Spread the deck face down. Have the volunteer touch the back of any card. Ask her to touch the face of the card without looking and decide whether she thinks its red or black. Just trusting her intuition. She says and you turn it over to show she is correct.

When she touches the card you cut the cards at that point and look at the card above. That card will be the opposite colour to the card she has touched. So for example that card we just looked at is black, we know the card she touched is a red one. Ask her which colour she thinks it is. If she says red, that's fine have her turn it over. That will happen 50% of the time. If that is not the case the most you have to do it either double lift to show she is correct