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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.

The Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous Peoples and Wildlife in Peril! – a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 1 – « The Way of the Shaman » 2:40

« The Way of the Shaman » alternates scenes from an art installation of my paintings and totemic sculptures at the Eyedrum Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with scenes of Yanomami shamanic initiation and daily life in the forest and the village. … Continue reading

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Setting our Stories Straight: Doctrine of Discovery — Matthew Root

As I seek to identify, interrogate, and ultimately unravel the various strands of dysfunctional Christian theology that were used to justify European expansion and colonization, I need to start with the biggest, baddest narrative of them all: the Doctrine of … Continue reading

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« In the absence of the sacred, everything is for sale. » — Barbara Crane Navarro — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Rainforest near tepui Yapacana along the Orinoco river, Amazonas, Venezuela – photo: Barbara Crane Navarro Originally posted on Barbara Crane Navarro: «?The environnent isn’t over here. The environment isn’t over there. You are the environment. What you people call your … Continue reading

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Deforestation – Illegal Clearing by Agribusiness ‘Driving Rainforest Destruction’ – Inter Press Service

Deforestation – Illegal Clearing by Agribusiness ‘Driving Rainforest Destruction’ – Inter Press Service https://ift.tt/3oZvGqq Deforestation – Illegal Clearing by Agribusiness ‘Driving Rainforest Destruction’  Inter Press Service Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2Pik6Fi Deforestation – Illegal Clearing by Agribusiness ‘Driving Rainforest Destruction’ … Continue reading

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Il vero costo dei i tuoi gioielli: i cartelli riciclano denaro per droga vendendo oro a sangue a Cartier e altri nel settore del lusso, così come per scontare i negozi di oro, e lo Yanomami e altri popoli Indigeni sta pagando il prezzo!

L’oro illegale è il modo più redditizio per i cartelli della droga, i gruppi terroristici, i trafficanti di armi, la mafia, i banchieri senza scrupoli e i commercianti e mediatori di oro internazionali per riciclare denaro perché a differenza della … Continue reading

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Ecocidio: el daño ambiental considerado crimen de guerra — NSTM Planet — mimismo

Los tiempos difíciles hacen que los pueblos y las sociedades se planteen las normativas, buscando… Ecocidio: el daño ambiental considerado crimen de guerra — NSTM Planet Ecocidio: el daño ambiental considerado crimen de guerra — NSTM Planet — mimismo

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El verdadero costo de sus joyas: los cárteles lavan el dinero de las drogas vendiendo ORO DE SANGRE a Cartier y otros en la industria del lujo, así como también a tiendas de descuento en oro, ¡y los Yanomami y otros comunidades Indígenas están pagando el precio!

El oro ilegal es la forma más lucrativa para que los carteles de la droga, los grupos terroristas, los traficantes de armas, la mafia, los banqueros sin escrúpulos y los comerciantes y corredores internacionales de oro puedan lavar dinero. porque … Continue reading

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La bataille de Little Big Horn — DR livres et publications

Datée du 26 juin 1876, cette bataille entre les Sioux qui dominaient la Grande Prairie du Nord et l’armée des USA succède à une série d’attaques de camps amérindiens avec de grands massacres par l’armée US. La méfiance s’installe donc … Continue reading

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O verdadeiro custo de suas joias: Cartéis lavam dinheiro de drogas vendendo OURO de SANGUE para Cartier e outros na indústria de luxo, bem como para lojas de ouro com desconto e os Yanomami e outros povos Indígenas estão pagando o preço!

O ouro ilegal é a maneira mais lucrativa para cartéis de drogas, grupos terroristas, traficantes de armas, a máfia, banqueiros inescrupulosos e comerciantes e corretores internacionais de ouro para lavar dinheiro porque, diferentemente da cocaína, o ouro “legal” se parece … Continue reading

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Breath of the Spirit — Eddie Two Hawks

Every shaman, an Indigenous holy man, has his own particular song which he sings when calling up his helping spirits. This was the song Uvavnuk, an Eskimo woman shaman, celebrating the joy of being moved by nature. “To the Indian,” … Continue reading

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