At the end of spring, our newly appointed Communications Marketing Strategist, Molly Almeida, traveled to Andalusian Spain and Morocco on a grant from her alma mater, The Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Molly won the Donald Kelly Travel Award from her BFA printmaking program in the Spring of 2020 to witness and experience how Islamic geometric design invokes infinity. She traveled to the Sahara to compare the spiritual experience of being in an expansive minimalistic space to that of dense patterns and architectural forms found within the medinas. Molly explores themes of memory and spirituality in her work. She utilizes her own sense of patterning, texture, and space as a way to convince the viewer of the reality of a distant broken memory embroidered by fiction. She has since returned from her trip, excited to translate her experiences and inspirations into her art practice.