The Arrangement (2013) serves as a playful yet rigorous reinterpretation of the photographic archive, specifically focusing on the domestic art of flower arranging. Drawing from a personal collection of mid-century instructional manuals, van Beek treats these vintage found images not as static historical documents, but as malleable raw material. By isolating and manipulating the strict rules of traditional floral design, she constructs an entirely new, surreal taxonomy of abstract flora. This project establishes her signature methodological approach, where the book itself functions as a contained, alternative universe for these cultivated, bizarre botanical inventions.