When I was here last summer (read more about that here) I was impressed by the mosses and lichens everywhere in the landscape. Some of my favourite things in O Castro Art Village are the stone stairs overgrown with mosses in front of several houses, a sign that hardly any feet have touched those steps for a long time.
Dead branches with lichen loosely attached to them are scattered everywhere and if you walk through the forest you see trees covered in it. The little apple tree that carried many apples in summer now looks eerier than ever.
I collected large amounts of the lichen and made a first attempt to sew it together, without a specific aim other than to create a large piece and see from there. For now it is only a small carpet and when I placed a dried scoby on top of it I realised they are both the result of a symbiotic partnership: bacteria and yeast for the scoby, fungi and algae for the lichen.
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