Due to an increase in naturaldisasters, many buildings have become abandoned and overtaken by nature. Given thisopportunity, the environment will use fungus organisms to restore a balancewithin an ecosystem offset by man-made caused damage. Organisms such asmushrooms and mold have evolved to breakdown and deteriorate human artifacts toprovide nourishment back into the soil. Efflorescence presents anallegory of this decomposition process. It is an installation representing anartificial species composed of manually and digitally cut white papercolonizing a vacant interior space. Whether the overgrowth clusters out ofseams and crevices of industrial pipes or flourishing out of delicate abandonedinstruments, the entity overtakes and germinates from the manufactured objects.The positive and negative shapes come to life within the space imitating thegrowth patterns of their analogs of fungi in nature. Scientific drawings in theform of small sculptures of cut paper, sewn thread, and transparent layers linethe walls describing the essence and gestural form of these proliferations seenin its natural habitat.