In chemistry, efflorescence (“to flower out” in French) is the migration of salt from an internally held state to the surface of a porous material, where it becomes visible. Efflorescence: Jawlan in Parenthesis is a series of photographs created in Jawlan, a territory with a unique political, cultural, and geographical formation, containing villages and Syrian communities under an unusual protracted occupation. The series addresses the bounty and beauty of Jawlan by visualising the tainted physical scars of the control over land and resources: unit drills, border walls, razor wire, and mines. Jawlan, a lush and fertile Eden of springs, fruit orchards, and historical agricultural practices, shares the Jawlani people’s sumud (“steadfastness” in Arabic) through land cultivation, wind farms, and water harvesting. Stateless yet paradoxically rooted representations of Jawlani land render the people’s struggle visible. The occupier is out of place, a stranger; its systems of control appear alien to the valleys and groves, a surfaced disturbance to the gardens of paradise.