I’ve no idea if America has art trails but the United Kingdom has tons of them thanks to ‘Wild in Art’. Last year Bristol, the city I live in, was taken over by 80 Gromit statues from Wallace and Gromit and last summer Aberdeen in Scotland was covered in dolphins.

In these art trails a large number of the specific statue, in this case dolphins, are usually painted in different unique designs and subsequently spread around the city/area for people to go and find them all. They are then auctioned off at the end, usually to raise money for charity.

Here’s a blurb from Visit Scotland “Until August 29 Aberdeen will be hosting the ‘Wild Dolphins’ project, organised by Wild in Art together with charities The ARCHIE Foundation and Whale and Dolphin Conservation, which will see 50 life-sized fibre glass sculptures of bottlenose dolphins going on display at various locations throughout the city.”

If you were in any doubt as to why I’m writing about this on a Spider-Man site then be doubtful no more as it’s quite clearly because one of the 50 fibreglass dolphin statues had been designed and painted to look like our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man!

Spider-Dolphin went on to raise £9,000 at auction, which managed to raise £531,000 in total for The ARCHIE Foundation and WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation charities.

Let’s just hope Dan Slott doesn’t kill Spider-Dolphin off in the Spider-Verse!

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