"Lament of the Field" (2022) is one of two monumental embroideries, his largest to date, created on the occasion of Jordan Nassar’s solo exhibition "Fantasy and Truth" at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston on view from Aug 11, 2022 – Jan 29, 2023. Each contains fifty-seven individual panels. The title–"Lament of the Field" (2022)—is pulled from "A Tear and A Smile" (1914) by Lebanese-American writer Gibran Khalil Gibran(1883–1931).

Curator Anni Pullagura writes, “Gibran’s melancholic poetics address the ebb and flow of memory, time, and history; similarly, for Nassar, embroidery holds a tension between conflict and harmony in the relationship between stitch and thread, color and pattern. These painterly panoramas fuse complex patterning with close attention to form and color, and appear to exceed the boundaries of their frames to travel across the canvas and beyond it, suggestive of an expansive sky or a boundless horizon.”

Throughout Nassar’s work, viewers encounter fragments of landscapes (an experience not unlike memories that fade over time and our collective efforts to recall them). A red-hued valley dips downward in "Lament of the Field" (2022), illuminated by a green crescent moon. In these imagined geographies, we find relationships that once were and could, perhaps, be again. “I like to discuss these landscapes as versions of Palestine as they exist in the minds of the diaspora, who have never been there and can never go there,” says the artist. “They are the Palestine I heard stories about growing up, half made of imagination. They are dreamlands and utopias that are colorful and fantastical—beautiful and romantic, but bittersweet.”