Bellingham has a rich and thriving art scene! “The City of Subdued Excitement” features both installations and outdoor murals. Recently a famous stencil sprayer came thru and left us with these beautiful pieces! He puts up koi in cities all across the US, maybe yoully see some near uou soon ?
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@djstan , I have seen these same exact spray painted koi stencils in downtown San Mateo, CA - a suburb south of San Francisco 6 or 7 years ago. They were around downtown area as I walked around. Do you know his name and his background? If you can provide a link that would be great.
Cheers,
Karen
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@KarenVChin that is so super cool! Do you have any pics? I would love to see 
The artist is Jeremy Novy check him out!
so beautiful
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4 phones later. I did find this on my Insta page. It was about 5 years ago, not 6 or 7.
What I remember was there was a koi trail on particular downtown San Mateo street corners.
This was also when “yarn bombs” were popular. I know the City of San Mateo paid for a sister team to “yarn bomb” two main blocks of city trees and knit and crochet street poles during the winter of 2013.
So I am now assuming they paid Jeremy Novy to do the same after reading your post.
Thanks for solving that mystery of seeing all these “koi” during that time for me. I always wondered why there were random spray painted koi on the sidewalk.
Cheers,
Karen
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“Yarn bombing” is popular in my town also! Although that is sponsored more through local knitting groups and the shop in town. I don’t think Jeremy was paid by the city of Bellingham, as there was little to no press of it
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