Artist McArthur Binion: “How can I paint without a brush?” | Louisiana Channel
“There are two things I’m happy about: I was born poor. And I stuttered. Challenging. Very challenging. Let’s go get them.” McArthur Binion’s love for art started by chance. As a delivery boy, he was asked to drop a package at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. ”This was the first time I’d ever been in a museum. I went in, and that experience changed my life.” Binion started drawing classes and worked uninterruptedly for two years.”If you can’t talk, I became a professional listener. And then I realised: You can’t learn while you talk.”
I transcribed the whole ending of the video because it’s great:
“I’m in the process now of developing new work. I’m going to a place that I’ve never been. When that’s happening in life, I can’t talk and I stutter like crazy. Which gets back to the point: stuttering is kind of what made me what I am. Because if you can’t talk… I became a professional listener. And then I realized: you can’t learn while you talk! I mean, like, it took me forever to just think to myself, ‘This is how you talk, man, no one else cares but you,’ but it’s still a key thing to my life that I want to speak visually.”
