In his newest embroidery, Jordan Nassar connects multiple richly patterned panels and interspersed landscapes to create a complete image. The composition "En route vers le désert", 2022, whose title translates to “En route toward the desert”, vibrates with color using the same square geometric motif throughout. A mountain cascading toward the desert unravels from the upper left corner descending downwards, surrounded by buzzing yellow and red decorative panels. Nassar 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 this collaborative work, 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.

Language continues to serve as a generative source for Nassar, who turned to the work of Lebanese-American poet Etel Adnan to title this artwork. Much like Adnan, Nassar projects his personal ruminations outwards, bringing them into dialogue with larger ideas about diaspora and global uncertainty.