(from: THE COLLINS ENGLISH DICTIONARY: "LOST") unable to find one’s way or ascertain one’s whereabouts not utilized, noticed, or taken advantage of confused, bewildered, or helpless unable to be found or recovered destroyed physically insensible or impervious morally fallen damned get lost

A strobe light is hurled through the room. The rhythm of the flashing illumination is determined by three different parameters. Two of them are controllable, calculable: the frequency of the strobe flash and the motion of the electric motor - they are two predetermined parts in the room's musical score.

When a third, uncontrollable parameter - tension and relaxation of the elastic rope holding the strobe light - is added, the strobe light moves incontrollably in the room; flashes cut through the dark starting from an unpredictable point in space.

Light is supposed to be the most important guideline for man who relies on his eyes for orientation. But here, illumination does not meet this claim, as it does not assist the person lost in the dark room: quite on the contrary, the blinding flashes make the following dark seem even more impervious. The unpredictability of the flashes' starting points leads to a shift of room co-ordinates in the observer's conception. To find one's way means: to find new points of reference.