Unsuccessful job application #2: Freelance Gardener, Studio Voltaire

Please explain why you are applying for this position, what interests you about Studio Voltaire, and why you are a good fit for this position. (Max 3000 characters)

When there was the worm moon I started moving bits of soil / waiting for the worms to burrow back into the ground. Sometimes I filmed them. The worms left new holes that were not the holes I dug; the marks they made were different, still, these were holes that came from the same ground. While I was digging, tilling harrowing, I was also delving, prodding, jabbing, nudging, breaking up the earth. Sometimes it felt like hoeing, sieving soil like dusting a Victoria sponge, like a sponge slightly on the turn. I made a Victoria sponge and shared my crumbs with the worms. All the while I was dreaming, scheming of my planting, planning, seeing what might grow where and how much I needed to tend, care, water, weed, sing to and / and I started wondering about music for worms, the John Soanes museum is hosting a sonata for worms I’d like to take the worms along breathe through our skin and feel it but / I don’t know what to carry them in or whether they’d like the adventure so I need to think more about how that could work / When I finished my cake I washed my plate and dried it with a tea-towel that is covered in pictures of worms and as I dry I think that when I take this bit of soil and swap it with this bit of earth, change places, really, I’m swapping worm holes and I wonder whether Anthea likes worms, see the garden is tiley and stoney and wormy with bits of volcano in the tiles there is lava for worms, pebbles for worms and I’d like to see what planting with the moon could do for the garden, follow the moon and also think about stone a different kind of music for the plants for the worms, we can walk through see that bit of soil and this bit of earth that bit more earthy with this bit more soily more like the ground and I like that it’s a bit more garden and a bit more art in the garden the garden in the art the space between garden and art. Maybe some costumes too. Salad gardens for salad days. While I was making a Victoria sponge I was thinking about seeds as conversations in soil, growing and tending and – some cabbages in there artichokes too though I know they’re quite hard to grow – a lunar garden that is good for the worms? I don’t know, I’d have to think about it a bit more, gather information and present it to the worms, maybe a kind of power point for worms that is this bit of pebble, that bit of lava only a bit less shiny and a bit more clod.