Grandma's Fortune

What does a lifetime of luck look like? For Rachel Roller, it looks like this: more than a hundred four- and five-leaved clovers, each one carefully pressed between the pages of a Victorian wildflower book, gathered over a lifetime by her grandmother and passed on at her death.
Grandma's Fortune is an artist's book that documents this extraordinary inherited collection. Precise, tender and quietly astonishing, it catalogues every clover in full, transforming a private ritual of hope into a shared archive of good fortune.

The vessel for the collection — a copy of Wild Flowers of the Wayside and Woodland — gives the project its emotional backdrop: a grandmother who looked down at the grass wherever she walked, and kept what she found.

The book sits squarely within Rachel Roller's broader practice of turning family ephemera and overlooked personal objects into intimate, meticulously crafted publications. Working consistently at the intersection of memory, material culture, and the bookmaking tradition, she has an instinct for finding the extraordinary embedded in the ordinary — the significance hidden inside an old bag, a business card, a lucky leaf.

A collection of over one hundred four- and five-leaved clovers inherited from Rachel Roller’s late grandmother. A lifetime of luck pressed between the pages of Wild Flowers of the Wayside and Woodland.