Miss Lichen and Mr Sponge have a thing going on.

They are old friends, Mr Sponge and Miss Lichen. They know each other for a long time. Mr Sponge on the photo isn't a real sponge though, but a syntactic sponge made out of polyester. A fake!
Miss Lichen is old, really old, she roamed the world before there were trees. And she made friends with many living things.

Mr Sponge is a new kid on the block, a fraud in a way as it is a man made copy of the natural thing. Natural sponges grow in the sea, like Sponge Bob, or they grow on plants like Luffa. We had a luffa plant in the garden growing up and up into the almond tree. It's a great plant and we ate the fruit and used the dried ones as a cleaning sponge for doing the dishes.

This polyester sponge though attracted my attention as it had more or less the same colour as the lichen. The beautiful ochre showed a connection with the lichen. And as such they connected and made a visual impact.
And so besides the visual connection there is also a poetic connection. As Miss Lichen and Mr Sponge have a thing going on. A complex story of two different worlds coming together and perhaps fusing into one.