Bad Luck, Hot Rocks: Conscience Letters & Photographs from the Petrified Forest (Second Edition) MER Paper Kunsthalle Contact us at hello@perimeterbooks

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and the role of monument preservation with respect to modern buildings

John Barker

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His pictures are supplemented and contextualised by photographic archive material from the 1950s and 1960s as well as short interviews with architects Simon Battisti

Bad Luck, Hot Rocks: Conscience Letters & Photographs from the Petrified Forest (Second Edition) MER Paper Kunsthalle Contact us at hello@perimeterbooksThe Petrified Forest National Park in Northeast Arizona protects one of the largest deposits of petrified wood in the world. Despite stern warnings, visitors remove several tons of petrified wood from the park each year, often returning these rocks by mail (sometimes years later), accompanied by a 'conscience letter'. These letters often include stories of misfortune attributed directly to their theft: car troubles, cats with cancer, deaths of family