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At first glance, Kathy Prendergast's map of the United States appears straightforward, providing topographical information about mountain ranges, lakes, and state borders. Yet, closer inspection reveals that the only places located on this map have been named, "lost." Do these Lost Creeks, Lost Islands, Lost Mountains, Lost Lagoons, and Lost Canyons, describe the actual places and their hidden position or report on a particular wasted resource? Or do they describe the mental states of the early settlers who named them? Or, perhaps, the eventual fate of the native peoples and their traditions? The ambiguity evoked in these actual place names mirrors a feeling of possibility in a land of uncertainty. Lost, 1999, provides a poetically ambivalent reminiscence of American history.
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