On the importance of getting lost.........

"The closer man gets to the unknown, the more inventive he
becomes - the quicker he adopts new ways."
-Buckminster Fuller

To enter into the unknown (to partake in an experiment)
involves the willingness to full experience and study things we
don't understand, and to embrace that lack of understanding.

There are different ways of 'getting lost.'  There is the literal
lost, as in being lost in the woods unable to find your way
back to the starting point.  Or there are metaphorical
examples of being lost:  lost in one's head, a lost soul, lost in
time.  In the context of exploring we can think of it in terms
of 'existing in a state where you do not know exactly where
you are headed.'  In this sense we may choose to become
either literally lost, exploring a place we've never been before,
or lost in the sense that we enter into a relationship with
objects and ideas without knowing what the outcome will be.

-as excerpted from Keri Smith's How To Be An Explorer Of
The World:  Portable Art Life Museum