Surrounding landmarks of the station include Canossa Convent, Masjid Sallim Mattar, Church of St Stephen, and Circuit Road Food Centre.

[12] On the morning of 24 May 2024, a maintenance locomotive caught fire while works were carried out at Mattar Station.

The tracks were closed from Fort Canning to Mattar as the Singapore Civil Defence Force put out the fire.

[27] The work intends to depict Mattar's religious landscape composed of "tiny pieces accumulated over time".

[28] Agarwood has been used as incense in various religions and cultures due to its exquisite fragrance, and hence Chua photographed the pieces at a gemstone shop at Fortune Centre and transformed them into the grand landscape painting displayed over the platforms.

[29] Although unintentional, the agarwood pieces were seen by the Art Review Panel as resembling meteorites in a cosmic backdrop, a comparison embraced by Chua.