Bad Luck, Hot Rocks: Conscience Letters & Photographs from the Petrified Forest (Second Edition) MER Paper Kunsthalle seeks to rearrange the relationship

seeks to rearrange the relationship with the aesthetics of consumer culture by referencing and remaking nostalgic imagery

John Barker

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Bad Luck, Hot Rocks: Conscience Letters & Photographs from the Petrified Forest (Second Edition) MER Paper Kunsthalle seeks to rearrange the relationshipThe 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