In his recent monumental embroideries, Jordan Nassar has extended their scale upwards, connecting multiple richly patterned panels and interspersed landscapes to create a complete image. He approaches each embroidery as if he was piecing together panels in a puzzle, fitting them together harmoniously to create a unified composition from disparate parts.

Nassar brings into play both the interior and exterior in these collaborative works, creating fictive spaces upon which our imaginations can be projected. Color is the building block for his own hand-embroidered rolling hills, in addition to that of his long-time collaborators; craftswomen living and working in Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Hebron in the West Bank. This work is exceptionally dynamic as there is a great deal of variation in each panel in the application of varying shades of green colored threads.

Language serves as a generative source for Nassar, who turned to the work of Lebanese-American poets Etel Adnan and Khalil Gibran to title his artworks. The title "Illumine The Fields", is borrowed specifically from Khalil Gibran's book "A Tear And A Smile", published in Arabic in 1914 and later translated in 1950.