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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 Bloody Secret Behind Lab-Grown Meat — Mother Jones

Lab meat—flesh grown in massive tanks instead of in the bodies of sentient animals—offers the promise of having our steak and eating it guilt-free, too. No vast amounts of… 721 more words The Bloody Secret Behind Lab-Grown Meat — Mother Jones

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A Terra e os povos Indígenas estão morrendo por nossa obsessão pelo ouro! Por favor, Escolha o direito à vida sobre os lucros do ouro e vaidade!

foto: Barrick Gold Corporation O ouro é uma relíquia colonial que devemos reconhecer com urgência como essencialmente sem valor – desmatamento, poluição e impactos catastróficos na água, na vida selvagem e nas comunidades indígenas são principalmente para joias e produtos … Continue reading

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Comforting Thought: Mitákuye Oyás — part of the language of resistance used in the Standing Rock demonstration -Content Catnip

“The phase Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ comes from the Lakota language and was part of the language of resistance used in the Standing Rock demonstration. Translated to English it roughly means ‘All my relations.’ “During prayers and meetings at Standing Rock, the … Continue reading

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La Terre et les peuples autochtones meurent pour notre obsession de l’or ! S’il vous plaît, Choisissez le droit à la vie plutôt que les profits sur l’or et la vanité ! 

photo : Barrick Gold Corporation L’or est une relique coloniale que nous devons de toute urgence reconnaître comme essentiellement sans valeur – la déforestation, la pollution et les impacts catastrophiques sur l’eau, la faune et les communautés autochtones sont principalement … Continue reading

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Corrupción en todos los niveles: quién se beneficia de la destrucción de la Amazonía peruana — InterMedia Press

Desde el desarrollo agrícola sin ningún control hasta el tráfico de vida silvestre, la corrupción engrasa los ejes de todos los delitos ambientales en la Amazonía peruana. Burócratas, fuerzas de seguridad, fiscales, reguladores y políticos regionales actúan como facilitadores para … Continue reading

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The Earth and Indigenous peoples are dying for our Gold obsession! Please Choose the Right to Life over gold profits and Vanity!

photo: Barrick Gold Corporation Gold is a colonial relic that we urgently need to recognize as essentially worthless – the deforestation, pollution and catastrophic impacts on water, wildlife and Indigenous communities is mainly for futile and superficial jewelry and financial … Continue reading

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Como o desmatamento e as mudanças climáticas transformam a Floresta Amazônica em fonte de carbono para a atmosfera!

Os países amazônicos são privilegiados ambientalmente e devem utilizar esta vantagem para desenvolverem-se de forma sustentável e contribuírem com a transição global para uma sociedade em que os componentes ambientais, sociais e econômicos sejam equilibrados Colniza, MT, Brasil: Área degradada … Continue reading

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Essere il mio Valentino? – Se i cercatori cercassero l’oro nel tuo giardino e contaminassero la tua unica fonte d’acqua con il mercurio, ti abbelliresti ancora con gioielli d’oro?

Siamo diventati individui totalmente manipolati dal marketing, ridotti alla nostra sola funzione di consumo? Siamo ansiosi di acquistare e consumare qualsiasi cosa, in modo compulsivo, frenetico, ostentato, senza alcuna considerazione delle conseguenze delle nostre scelte? I popoli Indigeni usano l’acqua … Continue reading

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Van Gogh-Style Climate Protests May Be Coming to the US — Mother Jones

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US funders of a climate activist group that poured tomato soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London … Continue reading

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¿Serías mi San Valentín? – Si los buscadores de oro estuvieran buscando oro en su patio trasero y contaminaran su única fuente de agua con mercurio, ¿todavía se adornaría con joyas de oro?

¿Nos hemos convertido en individuos totalmente manipulados por el marketing, reducidos a nuestra única función de consumo? ¿Estamos ansiosos por comprar y consumir cualquier cosa y todo, de manera compulsiva, frenética, ostentosa, sin ninguna consideración de las consecuencias de nuestras … Continue reading

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