Digital Ikebanas (2008-ongoing)

The digital flower arrangements of Anita Cruz-Eberhard are inspired by ikebana, the traditional Japanese art of arranging flowers. The photographer assembles her bouquets from the data bases of botanical departments at various universities – they exist thus only in digital and printed form. In this sense DIGITAL IKEBANAS is an investigation of the relation between the natural and the artificial, between reality and art, and between reality and perception. The work underscores the illusory quality of photography and demonstrates the inability of people to doubt what they see: seeing is believing.