You're listening to a bonus episode of Imaginary Worlds.

Last week, we heard about a new exhibit in New York called Sid Mead Future Pastime.

I imagine for some listeners, it might feel a little frustrating to hear about an exhibit

that they can't see because it's thousands of miles away, and it closes on May 21st.

So for this bonus episode, I'm going to play the entire tour that I got

from Elon Solo and William Corman, who organized the exhibit. You can see some of the images

on the imaginary world's Instagram and Facebook pages. So for your virtual tour, imagine you've taken

the subway to the neighborhood of Chelsea on the west side of Manhattan.

It's a beautiful spring day. You walk under the high line, the elevated park on a former train line.

You pass by a bunch of art galleries with big glass doors until you finally see up on the left the Sid Mead exhibit.

What inspired you do to want to mount this exhibit?

Well, I knew Sid going back all the way, all the way back to 2013.

And the most immediate reason is very simply, I started working with his husband and with his estate immediately

after he passed away, started looking for interesting legacy projects to kind of kick off

after Sid passed.

And it wasn't until there was a mounting of an exhibit at the Laguna College of Art

and Design in the middle of COVID that I finally

for the first time after knowing Sid and Roger for over a decade actually was able to see

the works up close.

And the moment you see them up close, and in this case, it was in this small college gallery

down in Orange County.

They just demand being seen in person.

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