r/Eugene • u/trujillone • Feb 26 '24

Suspish- cease and desist Moving

I used to live in Eugene, but now am up in Portland for a school program. Today I was buying a Suspish-fish sticker from a shop up here as a reminder of my time living in Eugene when the owner of the sticker shop informed me that apparently the artist behind Suspish got a cease and desist order from the Eugene PD. Like apparently knocked on their door and everything, like basically saying "If any more pop up, we'll know it was you" and they would get them in big trouble or something. How lame is that? Like, you would think the cops would have anything better to do than take down the artist behind this beloved icon and source of community pride.

Long live Suspish!!

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u/GameOverMan1986 Feb 26 '24

If you want respect as a visible artist or muralist, great, don’t do illegal shit. If you want respect as an illegal graffiti artist, great, stay in that lane and don’t try to cross over or at least don’t expect you can do both. Pretty simple.

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u/drtopfox Feb 26 '24

Basquiat and Keith Haring would disagree.

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u/GameOverMan1986 Feb 26 '24

Did they continue to do rogue graffiti after entering the commercial realm? I’m happy to be educated on this.

Also, if they did, it was obviously not in the era of social media and pocket cameras leading to crowd sourced marketing. So, we could be comparing two very different phenomena. I also wonder if she decided to put her public graffiti art in different cities, she might avoid this kind of heat and continue to enjoy commercial success.

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u/happytiger33 Feb 26 '24

Oh banksy

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u/GameOverMan1986 Feb 26 '24

Does Banksy sell directly to the public? Does he have a Facebook/instagram? Again, Suspish is taking this to a more commercial and exposed level in a relatively small community.

This story kind of reminds me of a “gangster” rapper, or a rapper with a past in drug dealing or violent crime. Hard to ascend in the entertainment/arts world without leaving the illegal stuff behind. Perhaps Suspish can just level up on her crimes, do stuff like tax evasion and insurance fraud instead of deface property illegally.