Joanie B. Lam

The pursuit of knowledge is a wonderful journey of infinite possibilities and diversions, pathed with inscrutable and frustrating trials and tribulations. While we are lost and adrift in wonder and in fear, we condemn these unexpected unreasonable deviations as 'missteps from the path of truth'. Yet, truth, the truth that concerns our actual existence and values, the truth that constitutes and shapes our meanings, is never a goal or an end, for the idea of an absolute 'fixed' truth in dogmatism would undermine its metaphysical profoundness and primal unity. Truth should be a living, inwards and continuously occurring subjective experience, gravitating towards the essence of the wholeness of our existence. Something that is not told, but earned — a glimpse at a time. Each tiny yet acute disclosure can only be earned through the most vehement dialectical and critical dialogues between different worlds, paradigms, systems, objects, individuals and the self.

Each unconcealment leads to a fresh start.

The phenomenological nature of subjective truth renders truth forever a mystery to us, owing to the limits of human perception. Although we may never be able to hold any immutable truth in the palm of our hand, we are nevertheless fortunate enough to be able to acquire the wealth of both objective and subjective knowledge in this age of human history.

All Those Who Wonder Are Lost explores the logic of causality, for it attempts to transcend the false struggle between an intention and an aftermath, by reason of unreason. From where do our thoughts begin and to where do they go? It concedes the necessary amount of obscurity, uncertainty and mystery over the edge of the map. Barely could it be treated as a conclusive piece of writing, but it serves its duty as a logbook of a maiden voyage in uncharted waters, waiting for new journeys to begin.