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Street artist Fin DAC: ‘I’m painting to beautify the urban landscape’

When Fin DAC gave up his day job to focus on creating enormous murals in city streets all over the world, his primary fear was not so much failing as falling.

“I’ve learned to control my fear of heights. I’ve removed the irrational part of that fear, but it doesn’t mean my knees don’t turn to jelly when I’m climbing over the edge of a building that has a 200ft drop,” the Irish-born artist

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