Julie van der Wekken has given this photograph to the Verses team to exclusively mint as an NFT for the first time. This minting marks the passage of this image from the physical world into the Verses. This edition is the only Foundation Edition of Too Much History that will ever be made.

As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on this art, including a Signature Edition.

You can play with this as a full art card in Verses games.

Artist Statement:

This image was captured with a Canon EOS 40D 10.1 Megapixel Digital Camera, in June of 2017 after dropping my daughter off at summer camp in San Juan County, Utah. On the way back home I stopped at a historical monument titled 'Newspaper Rock', which is one of the largest known collections of petroglyphs and is part of the 1.35 Million Acre Bears Ears National Monument. The petroglyphs were created by ancestral Puebloan people living, farming, and hunting along the Puerco River. The first carvings were made around 2,000 years ago and a few are as recent as the early 20th century, left by the first modern day explorers of the region.

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Julie van der Wekken has given this photograph to the Verses team to exclusively mint as an NFT for the first time. This minting marks the passage of this image from the physical world into the Verses. This edition is the only Foundation Edition of Hierlooms that will ever be made.

Ownership Benefits:

As the holder of this NFT, you will receive free airdrops of future cards based on this art, including a Signature Edition.

You can play with this as a full art card in Verses games.

Artist Statement:

This image was originally created in May 2010 as a moment I captured with my very first digital camera, a Canon Powershot SD1800 7.1 Megapixel Camera, while spending time with my son in our garden. Subsequently, the image was published in the May 2016 issue of The Sun Magazine and was also chosen for a group exhibit in March of 2017 titled 'Honoring Female Utah Artist's' at the Adobe Building in Lehi, Utah where it was printed large format at 24" x 30".

Shadows & reflections are two aesthetics that draw me in when photographing. I think of reflections as the yang (bright) of light and shadows as the yin (dark). The former lets light shine through and the latter blocks it. The lines are blurred sometimes when a reflection is also a shadow and vice versa. As it is with life, most things aren't as they seem, and if they are, they can quickly change. The truth always changes, things are fluid, just like the light when taking photographs.

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