A Brazilian Street Artist Attempts to Set a Different Type of World Record at the Rio Olympics

While the world’s athletes were getting ready to compete in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra was racing to try to set a Guinness World Record for the largest mural by one artist.

Inspired by the Olympic rings, “Ethnicities” depicts five indigenous faces from five continents.

Kobra (who also designed one of the 13 official 2016 Olympics posters) and a team of four guest artists worked 12-hour days for two months before finishing the massive artwork at the end of July. They used 100 gallons of white paint, almost 400 gallons of colored paint, and 3,500 cans of spray paint to create the 623-foot-long, nearly 51-foot-tall, and 31,700-square-foot mural. Painted on the exterior wall of a massive warehouse, it is located along Olympic Boulevard near Rio’s newly revitalized port area.

“We’re living through a very confusing time with a lot of conflict,” Kobra told the Rio Olympics’ official website. “I wanted to show that everyone is united, we are all connected.”

Watch the mural being painte in this time-lapse video:

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