Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
From the Radiolab podcast: What does it mean to see? One artist finds new ways to navigate the world, and tell us what she sees, after sight.
This is a segment we first aired back in 2011. In it, we hear a story of a very different kind of lost and found. Alan Lundgard, a college art student, fell in love with a fellow art student, Emilie Gossiaux. Nine months after Alan and Emilie made it official, Emilie's mom, Susan Gossiaux, received a terrible phone call from Alan. Together, Susan and Alan tell Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich about the devastating fork in the road that left Emilie lost in a netherworld, and how Alan found her again.
Then, at the end of the episode, and a full decade later, we catch up with Emilie and talk about her art, her heart, a dog named London and the movie "The Fifth Element."
Exhibition: Emilie L. Gossiaux's "Other-Worlding" at the Queen’s County Museum, which runs through April, 7, 2024: queensmuseum.org/exhibition/other-worlding
Watch: A video of Emilie Gossiaux painting with the BrainPort: youtube.com/watch?v=1xYi9oZMVWI
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Video by W. Harry Fortuna
From the Radiolab podcast: What does it mean to see? One artist finds new ways to navigate the world, and tell us what she sees, after sight.
This is a segment we first aired back in 2011. In it, we hear a story of a very different kind of lost and found. Alan Lundgard, a college art student, fell in love with a fellow art student, Emilie Gossiaux. Nine months after Alan and Emilie made it official, Emilie's mom, Susan Gossiaux, received a terrible phone call from Alan. Together, Susan and Alan tell Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich about the devastating fork in the road that left Emilie lost in a netherworld, and how Alan found her again.
Then, at the end of the episode, and a full decade later, we catch up with Emilie and talk about her art, her heart, a dog named London and the movie "The Fifth Element."
Exhibition: Emilie L. Gossiaux's "Other-Worlding" at the Queen’s County Museum, which runs through April, 7, 2024: queensmuseum.org/exhibition/other-worlding
Watch: A video of Emilie Gossiaux painting with the BrainPort: youtube.com/watch?v=1xYi9oZMVWI
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Video by W. Harry Fortuna
