![]() However, when researching for this book, a key distinction for Bailey was the difference between “memorial” and “monument” – two terms that have been perpetually confused. “The only names at the site are the four people connected to the statue: the photographer, Colonel Nielsen, the sculptor and myself – not all the other men, women and children who were on the plane that day.”īailey’s new volume of memorial art would probably never have come about without the formative experience of the crash or, perhaps, of having his young body cast in bronze. The real- ity is that a woman actually found my body in the wreckage, and there’s no photo of her.” The erasure of this second rescuer, Lynn Hartter, typifies this memorial’s lack of attention to the multiplicity of experiences it represents – to miss out key details. “A young child being carried by a man: there’s something inherently political about that, and also patriarchal. These emotions are complicated by the fact that the centrepiece of the work, The Spirit of Siouxland, is a bronze statue of Bailey in Nielsen’s arms, created by sculptor Dale Lamphere. ![]() Now a design journalist, author and Editor-at-Large at Phaidon, Bailey has mixed feelings about the memorial to Flight 232, which was unveiled in Sioux City in 1994. The scene was captured by photographer Gary Anderson and the image became iconic, carrying associations of masculine heroism and childhood innocence – narratives that remain embedded in western cultural responses to tragedy.īailey’s brother also survived the crash, but his mother unfortunately did not, passing away with 112 other passengers. Bailey was found in the wreckage and was quickly handed over to Lieutenant Colonel Dennis Nielsen, who carried him to safety. Upon impact, the fuselage split into several pieces. At 37,000 feet, the plane’s hydraulic lines were severed, and the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing at Sioux Gateway Airport, Iowa. On 19 July 1989, three-year-old Spencer Bailey boarded United Airlines Flight 232 in Denver with his mother, Frances, his brother Brandon, and 293 other passengers. Spencer Bailey investigates the art and architecture of loss. ![]() 21st century memorials resonate with an age of growing conflict, terror and prejudice. ![]()
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