"It’s been five hours and finally that dratted rain has stopped. We continued along the floor of the canyon, undulating with its many ribs. My companion and his ever present joviality told me that the rains signal a great change in the world and in man. Such spirituality doesn’t meet much sentiment in myself but I humoured him and asked how the rain would change himself or I. His reply was swift, ‘Are we not wet?’. Well, I can say that put me in my place. The land is too I suppose. I had made to set my pack down for a biscuit to ponder his mysteriousness, but the man exclaimed “The world is changing!” and “We must move with it.” I laughed at him but the seriousness in his eyes met me a steely gaze that this was no joke. And sure enough not ten minutes later did I begin to understand why.

Rumblings and cracking and snapping and scraping, the rustle of gravel and the whispers of sand blew down the valley after us, carried by the soft breeze which had followed the rain. My guide was being literal, the world was changing following the rain, it had loosened the earth. First the small stones would make their way to gravity’s bosom and as they did they would loose larger rocks which in turn would free those larger still. The swift exit I had been forced to precipitate from the valley was well founded and towards the end of our climb I turned to capture this image just as the great earthworks were beginning to shiver with the falling of stones, tremble with the collapse of rock and shake with the reseating of the earth. Just as well we were on the other side. When I return again, this valley and the world I once knew would be a different place from the one I had just left." - RL

With the NFT comes a 2K square hovering postcard video, 4K square still image (from both sides) and full res artwork image (2130 x 2880).

The rl_wrld is a project by artist Robin Leverton to craft a story from digital landscape artworks, and to share each chapter as postcards minted as NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) on the Ethereum blockchain. Go to rlwrld.net to find out more.