The Mountain is an artwork designed for the lift lobby walls, covered in fragments of mountain landscapes, using the artist’s signature technique of transforming images into patterns of coloured pixels.

The Cancer Centre’s colourful layers of design reminded artist Karel Martens of a mountain and evoked memories of Thomas Mann’s classic novel The Magic Mountain, which depicts a place of healing, relaxation and contemplation, cut off from everyday life.

Karel selected fragments of mountain landscape photographs and - applying his signature technique - transformed these images into patterns made up of coloured pixels, which correspond with the Cancer Centre village colours. These pixels are made up of a series of shapes which have been placed on top of one another to give the illusion of depth.