"What can I say? Swapping a boat for a camel hasn’t done anything to alleviate the mild feelings of queasiness I’ve been hiding from my companions. We slept in tents, I wanted to sleep under the stars but I have now seen why that would have been a bad night’s sleep. Take these three photos: The time between the first and last is merely an hour. We set to rest by this oasis for lunch today. One member of the caravan suggested the cave was the mouth of a sandworm’s burrow and the subsequent dip in the land that has allowed water to rise, where it landed after breaching. I’m still not entirely sure whether he was serious or not, the little hill formed by the cave has to be at least ten metres tall, that would be one hell of a worm!

The winds started picking up from the east and the camels began to groan, they knew what was coming. The absolute mother of all sand storms swept through us. We hunkered down as best we could and hid our faces in the fibres of our head wrappings while ferocious little needles pricked and poked at my skin, somehow breaking through layer upon layer of cotton. By the time the howling gusts had abated, the cave and its oasis were gone, rubbed out by the rolling cruelty of the desert." - RL

With the NFT comes a 1K GIF, 2K square hovering postcard video, 4K square still image (from both sides) and full res artwork image (4726 x 2756).

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.