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About Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project
I'm a French artist living near Paris.
From 1968 to 1973 I studied at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, then at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California, for my BFA.
My work for many decades has been informed and inspired by time spent with indigenous communities. Various study trips devoted to the exploration of techniques and natural pigments took me originally to the Dogon of Mali, West Africa, and subsequently to Yanomami communities in Venezuela and Brazil.
Over many years, during the winters, I studied the techniques of traditional Bogolan painting. Hand woven fabric is dyed with boiled bark from the Wolo tree or crushed leaves from other trees, then painted with mud from the Niger river which oxidizes in contact with the dye.
Through the Dogon and the Yanomami, my interest in the multiplicity of techniques and supports for aesthetic expression influenced my artistic practice. The voyages to the Amazon Rainforest have informed several series of paintings created while living among the Yanomami. The support used is roughly woven canvas prepared with acrylic medium then textured with a mixture of sand from the river bank and lava. This supple canvas is then rolled and transported on expeditions into the forest. They are then painted using a mixture of acrylic colors and Achiote and Genipap, the vegetal pigments used by the Yanomami for their ritual body paintings and on practical and shamanic implements.
My concern for the ongoing devastation of the Amazon Rainforest has inspired my films and installation projects. Since 2005, I've created a perfomance and film project - Fire Sculpture - to bring urgent attention to Rainforest issues. To protest against the continuing destruction, I've publicly set fire to my totemic sculptures. These burning sculptures symbolize the degradation of nature and the annihilation of indigenous cultures that depend on the forest for their survival.
I think we should – instead of harnessing the power of the sun – research and further develop Tesla’s invention, with which he uses the energy in our atmosphere. That would be free of charge for everybody, except a device that we would need, and no energy would have to be created. We would use the energy that is there for our purposes and after that it is released into the atmosphere again. The only unknown is, what material we would need for the device. That is always the problem, is it not, as it also is with the solar panels.
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I think we should – instead of harnessing the power of the sun – research and further develop Tesla’s invention, with which he uses the energy in our atmosphere. That would be free of charge for everybody, except a device that we would need, and no energy would have to be created. We would use the energy that is there for our purposes and after that it is released into the atmosphere again. The only unknown is, what material we would need for the device. That is always the problem, is it not, as it also is with the solar panels.
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That could be a wonderful solution! 💚🌏🍀💙🌍🌊
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They will do something in that direction as soon as somebody finds out, how to make money with it.
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Definitely!
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