John Park is an artist living in LA who paints around the US. We talk about Cannibal Flower, coming up in Ohio, attending RISD, the CIA using Modern Art in a covert operation in the '50s to combat the cultural Cold War, soft power flexes, Alphonse Mucha, Frog Tape, the 28,000 square feet Nike job, cracking sidewalks with lifts, hand-painted giant advertisements, the process of painting a basketball court, investigating the things that scare you, the power of saying yes, regulating self-talk, Saturdays feeling like Mondays, becoming friends with your past, teaching art at Concord High School and being the whistleblower on its corruption, always over-delivering, having 50 non-artists paint 50 paintings on a fictional show called 'Striver: The Art Edition," and being the last of the analogues.

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