Description: Bad Luck, Hot Rocks: Conscience Letters and Photographs from the Petrified Forest Ryan Thompson, 1st Ed., 2nd Printing, 2019 Softcover Purchased as new and remains unread. Only opened to photograph for listing.Please view all photos for book condition. Summary:The 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 members, etc. Some writers hope that by returning these stolen rocks, good fortune will return to their lives, while others simply apologize or ask forgiveness. "They are beautiful," reads one letter, "but I can't enjoy them. They weigh like a ton of bricks on my conscience. Sorry." Bad Luck, Hot Rocks documents this ongoing phenomenon, combining a series of original photographs of these otherworldly "bad luck rocks" with facsimiles of intimate, oddly entertaining letters from the park's archives. I always send out the following day after paymentEach book will be prepared with care for shipping in appropriate box. Enjoy my store for other poetry and art books from my collection.
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Book Title: Bad Luck, Hot Rocks: Conscience Letters Petrified Forest
Publisher: ICE Plant, T.H.E.
Item Length: 10.5 in
Edition: First Edition, 2nd Printing 2019
Publication Year: 2014
Format: Softcover
Language: English
Illustrator: Yes
Item Height: 0.6 in
ISBN-10: 0989785912
Author: Ryan Thompson
Features: Illustrated
Genre: Art
Topic: Photographers, Individual Artists / Artists' Books
Item Width: 7.4 in
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
