The project deals with the difference between ‘chance’ and ''luck'—between its probabilistic dimension and its symbolic understanding. Given its small size, clover, and especially four-leafed clover, is a symbol of happiness. The chance of finding one in nature is statistically evaluated as 1 to 10,000. As such, the artwork confronts the possible with the probable, tracing dialectics between rationalism and superstition. In Christian symbolism, the four-leaf originally represents the cross and the four gospels. But throughout the time it has become a sign of luck not only to its rarity but originally on the vigorous vital growth of these plants.

Legend tells us that when Eva was driven out of paradise, she took a four-leaf clover, which since then symbolically embodies a piece of paradise. In 1640, John Melton satirises the superstition of the four-leaf in his satire Astrologaster, marking the first written proof of the four-leaf clover as a symbol for luck. Through cultural history, the clover incorporates the opposition of an agnostic deterministic conviction with a romantic imagination. This classical tension between these two is further actualised by a dried and framed 4-leaved exemplar confronting a white clover, ‘Trifolium Repens L’ as a product of nature, and the purple clover; ‘Quadrifolium Repens T’ as a product of genetic engineering, which opposes imagination and manipulation. In a universe where everything is possible, we still need a spark.