In Search of Norm Parker (and Subsequently the Orang Mawas) is an extensive body of work, incorporating photography, film, AI, text and performance. It tests the notions of empiricism, evidence and discovery, structured around a story that began in 1973 when the zoologist, Norm Parker, vanished whilst hunting for a cryptid great ape known as the Orang Mawas on the Malay Peninsula. In January 2023, I acquired, by way of online auction, a large selection of Parker’s work, filed haphazardly within a leather box. The collection contains letters, essays, photographs, books, and painstaking research compiled over a 4-year period prior to his disappearance. This material revealed a tension between Parker and the 'Scientific Institution'. His persistent battle to shed the label of 'pseudoscientist' created an obsession with obtaining 'undeniable empirical evidence' for the existence of the Mawas. The following summer I set out to retrace Parker’s steps across the Malay Peninsula in an attempt to uncover what became of him. The work takes the form of an installation, a film, and a book, existing as standalone artefacts whilst simultaniously working in conversation with each other.