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Bad Luck, Hot Rocks Conscience Letters and Photographs from the Petrified Forest

Ryan Thompson

The story of the curse made famous by the hit show 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...

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It was described as a book compiling photographs of the conscience letters and the pieces of petrified wood that were returned, and it was said to have made a lot of sense in context of some of the research into geologic materials.

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it starts just straight away they are beautiful, but i can't enjoy them they weigh like a ton of bricks on my conscience. period. sorry for him the letters are artifacts that are just as interesting a...

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It was described as a book compiling photographs of the conscience letters and the pieces of petrified wood that were returned, and it was said to have made a lot of sense in context of some of the research into geologic materials.

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it starts just straight away they are beautiful, but i can't enjoy them they weigh like a ton of bricks on my conscience. period. sorry for him the letters are artifacts that are just as interesting as the pieces of wood

Ryan Thompson's photographs of the letters look stark and lie on all white backgrounds next to pictures of pieces of returned wood he collected them into a book called Bad Luck Hot Rocks

made a lot of sense with some of the research i was doing into geologic materials geologic ephemera events and the way we project human emotions and thoughts into these sorts of materials so it just kind of bowled me over

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