Nassar collaborated with craftswomen living and working in Ramallah to create monumental, multi-panel embroideries inspired by paired elemental forces: earth/water and fire/air. The craftswomen lay the foundations of his panoramas and Nassar then embroiders multicolored landscapes within their intricate geometric grids; creating a dialogue through an exchange of visual ideas. Nassar has doubled the size of his past work to create these four-panel works, each with a patterned border that contains sections of a continuous landscape.

In his newest embroidery, waves of curved blue embroidery intersect the geometric patterns within the four panels. This work recalls the elemental form water, in this case, a seascape is lit by a round yellow sun in the upper left corner. Each vista functions as a window within a dense scrim of pattern, which obscures and reveals at turns.

"Motherhood is a concept that, in many ways, is always present in my work. The mastery of skill in this medium is, and has always been, matrilineal; symbols, motifs, color combinations, and pattern composition are learned from one's own mother, grandmother, and women in one's immediate community. Of course for me, as a man who didn't learn from my ancestors, having been separated from access to it by diaspora and its legacies, I recouped this cultural knowledge first through the internet. Eventually being able to work with Palestinian women I've since met in the West Bank, I have in some ways been adopted by communities of women, surrogate embroidery mothers, if you will, who share with me, by Whatsapp or Facebook messenger, projects they're working on, and who follow my progress as well. It's been a happy and fulfilling experience to develop these relationships, and to feel a part of the Palestinian embroidery community.

With regards to this piece, "How blue is the sea!", there's a second connection to notions associated with the Mother; in this case, Nature, Mother Earth. This work is one of a suite of four, each roughly the same size, ca 100 x 40 inches, and each assigned an element, a color, a direction. The work in question embodies the element of water, the colors blue, grey and black, the direction north. The panels of layers of water, capped with a yellow sky, flowing rightwards and downwards across the piece, twirling through the undercurrents until reaching the quiet brown and burnt yellow sea floor, are interrupted by fields of traditional patterning, the color combinations chosen by the Palestinian women who embroidered them, the placement of the colors - that is, the lattice being one color, the crosses another, the dots between them yet another - informed by tradition." - Jordan Nassar