Dobbiamo ripensare il nostro rapporto con l’intero mondo vivente e non pensare più come consumatori in un’economia, ma riconoscere che siamo organismi in un ecosistema.
La foresta amazzonica prima della deforestazione
I popoli Indigeni usano l’acqua di fiumi e torrenti nei loro territori ancestrali per bere, cucinare, fare il bagno e pescare.
Famiglia nativa
L’estrazione dell’oro e altre industrie estrattive contaminano l’acqua, avvelenando le persone, la fauna selvatica e il suolo.
Il sito di estrazione dell’oro contamina le terre indigene con il mercurio
Per favore, aiuta le popolazioni indigene, la natura e la fauna selvatica boicottando tutti i prodotti della deforestazione; oro, olio di palma, legno esotico, soia, manzo, ecc. !
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.
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With you on this, Barbara. I think I mentioned I spent quite a few hours reading about Piraha in the Amazon rainforest (who have no words for numbers or colors). It taught me a lot about humanity.
Thank you, Jacqui! The Yanomami count one, two, then many (as in many moons) and refer to zero as “there is no more”…
It is an incredible shift in consciousness to see the world through the eyes of other peoples! 🌍🙏🌍
Didn’t know that about the Yanomami. I wonder if ‘zero’ is too symbolic? Or just unnecessary? The Piraha are considered by those who have visited them as the happiest people in the world, maybe uncluttered by all the stuff that drives the rest of us nuts! Are the Yanomami happy in their lives? They sound to be.
Before illegal gold miners disrupted Yanomami traditional ways with rampant deforestation of their territories in Brazil and Venezuela and contamination of the waterways, fish and soil with mercury, they were the happiest people I had ever known.
Yanomami in the forest live simply and all of their worldly possessions fit in one basket.
Please see the two films I posted today to have an idea of the community life they enjoyed; the women fishing together, etc.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on them! 🌍🙏🌍
Barbara Crane Navarro 
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With you on this, Barbara. I think I mentioned I spent quite a few hours reading about Piraha in the Amazon rainforest (who have no words for numbers or colors). It taught me a lot about humanity.
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Thank you, Jacqui! The Yanomami count one, two, then many (as in many moons) and refer to zero as “there is no more”…
It is an incredible shift in consciousness to see the world through the eyes of other peoples! 🌍🙏🌍
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Didn’t know that about the Yanomami. I wonder if ‘zero’ is too symbolic? Or just unnecessary? The Piraha are considered by those who have visited them as the happiest people in the world, maybe uncluttered by all the stuff that drives the rest of us nuts! Are the Yanomami happy in their lives? They sound to be.
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Before illegal gold miners disrupted Yanomami traditional ways with rampant deforestation of their territories in Brazil and Venezuela and contamination of the waterways, fish and soil with mercury, they were the happiest people I had ever known.
Yanomami in the forest live simply and all of their worldly possessions fit in one basket.
Please see the two films I posted today to have an idea of the community life they enjoyed; the women fishing together, etc.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on them! 🌍🙏🌍
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Thank you, Barbara. I’ll check them out!
I should tell you how amazed I was watching the videos of you being ‘groomed’ by the chimps! Oh my!
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