Coming Soon: The Immeasurable Apotheosis of Sid Wright / So Long, Good Luck

Hi, wonderful patrons! 

As we start to approach our mid-season point in June/July, we wanted to give you a heads-up, a schedule, (and a bit of a sneak peek) on two very special Patreon-exclusives that will be with you in the near future...

We've also attached a teaser for So Long, Good Luck - our standalone cosmic horror story - to give you a taste of what's waiting for you in the Pitt Collection. (Transcript follows at the bottom of this post.)

The Immeasurable Apotheosis of Sid Wright

Months after what he's come to think of as his 'resignation letter' from Greater Glottage Radio, the prophet of sleep and former radio DJ known as Sid Wright is suffering a crisis of faith. 

Does an endless rest really hold all of the answers? Is he causing more harm than he's preventing? And what, exactly, is the name of his god?

Hoping to understand his deity, his powers, and his mission better, Sid embarks on a remarkable journey homewards to the town of Puckham's Weald...

Starring David S. Dear

Four episodes in total: first episode releases on Friday 3rd June, decommissioned episodes release post-season's end.

So Long, Good Luck

At around closing time at an unnamed London art gallery, visitors and staff alike find themselves baffled - then increasingly horrified - when the power unexpectedly drops out.

Phone signals fail. The streets and roads are still. Reality itself seems to shift and alter without warning.

And even the night sky outside seems to have been snuffed out...

As the horrible Painter hunts them through the pitch-black corridors and hallways of the gallery, our isolated and scattered survivors attempt to find their way to safety.

As it becomes increasingly clear that the world itself may not survive this cataclysmic event, we also come to understand that the mysterious, hypnotically beautiful abstract painting known as ‘So Long, Good Luck’ may be at the heart of all of this…

Four episodes: first episode to release during our mid-season hiatus (20 June - 20th July), then decommissioned at season's end.

Teaser transcript

We hear a tape switch on. We're listening to old archival footage of an interview.

INTERVIEWER:

My guest tonight is Astrid Duvall - who’s been described by some recent admirers amongst the abstract expressionists, including the great Joan Mitchell, as a visual artist ahead of her own time-

DUVALL:

(Interrupting him)

Ahead of my own time?

Do you think you could just explain that phrase to me, Matthew?

INTERVIEWER:

(Thrown off his stride)

-someone who’s seen a resurgence in popularity, now, yes, but who might have found more mainstream recognition if she’d only been born ten or twenty years later, to an audience more capable of understanding-

DUVALL:

(Interrupting him)

No.

No, I simply don’t agree with that assessment.

The notion that today’s audience is any more progressive or capable of understanding any work of mine than the generation I grew up with - no, that isn’t right, that hasn’t been considered.

INTERVIEWER:

You don’t think that the artistic community has made any kind of progress towards-

DUVALL:

(Calmly and coldly)

I don’t believe that the human community has made any kind of progress, really. And certainly not in the scant past couple of decades.

No, I think we took precisely one rather bold step forwards some three hundred thousand years ago, and ever since we’ve been caught in place squabbling about exactly what that act of progress meant for us.

The vast majority of artistic movements, including my own, make an effort to capture that confusion from different and usually contradictory angles, but that doesn’t mean we should applaud the most recent batch for their chosen contradictions...when they still so profoundly fail to get past that immense and lingering question mark. What are we here for?

INTERVIEWER:

That seems like a particularly dim view of human potential.

DUVALL:

On the contrary, Matthew, I’m incredibly optimistic about the future of mankind. I just think we’re all hopelessly misguided about precisely what’s in store for us at the end of it all.

INTERVIEWER:

But you think you have the answers?

DUVALL:

(Smugly)

Oh, I know I do.

Believe me, Matthew. I’ve seen it.

The tape switches off.

After a moment, we hear the horrible humming of something like a mosquito.