Longing for Amelia—The Historical and Mythological Landscape

Eighty-three years after Amelia Earhart’s disappearance,only theories remain, yet her legend survives in the many individuals still searching for evidence of what happened to her on that fateful day in 1937. The work presented here is from the first phase of 3 of the Earhart project—a five-week expedition to the outer-reaches of the Northern Mariana and Marshall Islands, photographing the seascapes and landscapes specific to the “Japanese Capture” theory of Earhart's disappearance. It is a theory involving the forced landing of Earhart in fortified Japanese territory followed by her capture, imprisonment, and possible execution at the hands of their Imperial Navy. The complete breadth of this project will take time and travel to multiple parts of the Central and South Pacific. The project includes archival ephemera related to the planning and preparation of the flight, the flight itself, as well as the search following her disappearance. Scientific documents supporting the different theories will also be included, as well as other mixed-media inspired by some of these elements.