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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.
There is another big problem with the various alternatives to meat concocted by European and North American scientists. Indigenous Americans from southern Mexico, the Southeastern United States and northern South America are highly intolerant of soy bean products and over a longer period, of wheat products. Creek Indian women, who have constantly eaten wheat products, typically must have their gall bladder removed by age 35. Many must also have much of their colon removed, when young or middle aged women. Constant exposure to wheat causes our colons to atrophy.
Soy tofu and “meat” are some of the most toxic things that I could eat. I instantly feel like I have influenza. I stay healthy by eating a diet high in beans, corn (maize), rice, sweet potatoes, white potatoes and tropical fruits.
Typo ( I left out a not in my first comment) - Soy bean products such as tofu and synthetic protein are two products that are extremely toxic to many indigenous Americans. If I slip up and eat something with high levels of soy protein, I quickly feel like I have influenza.
Physiologically, Indigenous Americans are not the same as Europeans and Oriental Asians. In converse – Peanuts, an indigenous American crop, only have positive nutritional effects on me, but can be lethal to some people of only European ancestry.
Barbara Crane Navarro 
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There is another big problem with the various alternatives to meat concocted by European and North American scientists. Indigenous Americans from southern Mexico, the Southeastern United States and northern South America are highly intolerant of soy bean products and over a longer period, of wheat products. Creek Indian women, who have constantly eaten wheat products, typically must have their gall bladder removed by age 35. Many must also have much of their colon removed, when young or middle aged women. Constant exposure to wheat causes our colons to atrophy.
Soy tofu and “meat” are some of the most toxic things that I could eat. I instantly feel like I have influenza. I stay healthy by eating a diet high in beans, corn (maize), rice, sweet potatoes, white potatoes and tropical fruits.
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Typo ( I left out a not in my first comment) - Soy bean products such as tofu and synthetic protein are two products that are extremely toxic to many indigenous Americans. If I slip up and eat something with high levels of soy protein, I quickly feel like I have influenza.
Physiologically, Indigenous Americans are not the same as Europeans and Oriental Asians. In converse – Peanuts, an indigenous American crop, only have positive nutritional effects on me, but can be lethal to some people of only European ancestry.
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Another issue with soy is that much of it comes from deforested land in Brazil…
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