Published: 02 March 2026
Text: Anne-Marie Korseberg Stokke
Photo: Anne-Marie Korseberg Stokke / Street Art Oslo
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"I hope that the artwork can inspire solutions to the challenges of the workday!"
The artwork that now covers the large wall outside the cinema in the Oslo Science Park illustrates a chain reaction that sets off both gas balloons, a falling money bag, robotic arms, and Newton's cradle, and finally a rocket. Suitable for a house with a lot of action!
"I like that it feels like one long 'scene' that just continues. You press play, and then everything starts," says Diaz. "It's a chain reaction, but also a little journey in everything that happens from when you start a company and you launch your product."
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The mural was funded by ArtBio, which has offices nearby, and by Oslo Science Park through its three-year collaboration with Oslo Street Art.
Diaz admits that the curved shape brought some extra challenges.
“It went exactly the way I feared: it took a lot more time than I’d hoped. Every time I came here I thought, ‘That wall isn’t even that big.’ And then I’d start working and go, ‘Oh wow… it’s f—ing huge!’” he says, laughing. “But I like a challenge, and I love that every project includes something I haven’t done before. I’ve painted a silo before, but never a piece that wraps all the way around a curved wall.”
Luckily, he got help from his fellow artist Pink Boneyard with the actual painting. Together they spent a couple of weeks with paint and spray cans. The spray can also appears in the motif itself, and it’s what creates the play of colour in the background of the artwork.
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“I like mixing brushwork and spray paint. You could paint everything with a brush, but I enjoy having a few different textures and expressions — it brings the piece more to life,” he says.
The round wall made it especially challenging to keep proportions and lines consistent all the way around. To make it work, the artist used both VR goggles and careful measurements to transfer the motif from sketch to wall.
“The outlining is incredibly important — it’s the foundation. Once that’s in place, it’s ‘just’ a matter of colouring it in.”
The colour palette isn’t random, either. It draws on the visual identities of both Oslo Science Park and ArtBio.
“You might think a place filled with research and the hard sciences would feel a bit ‘cold,’ but both Forskningsparken and ArtBio actually have very warm, energetic colours in their visual profiles — so I found a lot of inspiration there.”
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