Paul Aston
Patrick Campbell
Conor Foran

A conversation on Dysfluent Art

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It was a cold and windy day at the end of lockdown three here in the UK when Paul and I set out to record this video. It is an attempt to capture some of the conversations we both enjoyed having about stammering and art. Paul first talks about his own experiences of coming into contact with the idea of stammering pride and then beginning to try drawing himself in the moment of stammering. We discuss the lack of positive representation of stammering in art and why it is important to change this; how it feels to be painted stammering and where Paul hopes this work will lead to next. We later got the graphic designer Conor Foran to help us spruce it up with his awesome stammered font. Paul and I had a blast recording this video. We hope you’ll overlook the amateurish vibe (we did it outside, socially distanced taping a phone to a camera tripod!) and enjoy the video. The script is provided below too for those who prefer to read.