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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.

Fossil-Fuel Boosters Have Criminalized Climate Protests Across America (and the globe!)— Mother Jones

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Republican-led legislatures have passed anti-protest laws drafted by an extreme right corporate lobbying group in a third of all American states since 2018, as part … Continue reading

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Seja meu namorado? – Se garimpeiros estivessem escavando seu jardim e contaminando sua única fonte de água com mercúrio, você ainda se decoraria com joia de ouro?

Tornamo-nos indivíduos totalmente manipulados pelo marketing, reduzidos à nossa única função de consumo? Estamos ansiosos para comprar e consumir tudo e qualquer coisa, compulsivamente, freneticamente, ostensivamente – sem qualquer consideração pelas consequências de nossas escolhas? Os povos indígenas utilizam a … Continue reading

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Here’s the Van Gogh Soup Thrower Explaining the Soup Throw. Seems Fine to Me. — Mother Jones

Here’s a video of one of the two people from Just Stop Oil explaining why they threw a can of soup at “Sunflowers” by Van Gogh last year at London’s National Gallery. 727 more words Here’s the Van Gogh Soup Thrower Explaining … Continue reading

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Sois ma Valentine ? – Si des prospecteurs cherchaient de l’or dans votre arrière-cour et contaminaient votre seule source d’eau avec du mercure, vous décoreriez-vous toujours avec des bijoux en or ?

Sommes-nous devenus des individus totalement manipulés par le marketing, réduits à notre seule fonction de consommation ? Avons-nous hâte d’acheter et de consommer tout et n’importe quoi, de manière compulsive, frénétique, ostentatoire – sans aucune considération des conséquences de nos … Continue reading

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ANALISANDO UM CASO DE EXPLORAÇÃO ILEGAL DE MADEIRA EM UMA TERRA INDÍGENA NA AMAZÔNIA  — ÁGUA, VIDA & CIA – Fernando José de Sousa

Acontecimentos desses últimos dias colocaram a questão das Terras Indígenas em evidencia. No último dia 5, conforme apresentamos em uma postagem anterior, um jornalista inglês e um indigenista brasileiro desapareceram enquanto visitavam uma área indígena no Vale do rio Javari, … Continue reading

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Be my Valentine? – If prospectors were digging for gold in your back yard and contaminating your only source of water with mercury, would you still decorate yourself with gold jewelry? 

Have we become individuals utterly manipulated by marketing, reduced to only our consumerist function,? Are we shoppers – eager to buy and consume anything and everything, compulsively, frantically, ostentatiously – without any consideration of the consequences of our choices? Indigenous … Continue reading

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Países pobres desenvolvem países ricos, e não o contrário!

O Norte Global extrai US$ 2,2 trilhões em matérias-primas do Sul a cada ano. Essa soma seria suficiente para acabar com a pobreza extrema quinze vezes, em todo o mundo Gráfico do artista cubano Falco (Alex Falco Chang). Fonte: CUBASI Por … Continue reading

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« Yanomami – lottando per l’esistenza sulla nostra terra sacra! »

« Esattamente 8 anni fa, il popolo Yanomami cominciò a sperimentare la sofferenza, a causa della negligenza dello Stato brasiliano che avrebbe dovuto proteggerci, ma ci ha lasciato alla mercé degli invasori e della mancanza di assistenza. Nel periodo dal 2019 … Continue reading

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Pesquisa em Terra Indígena Yanomami identifica resíduos de mercúrio que afetam a saúde da comunidade local — Ecoamazônia

O trabalho de coleta de material geológico faz parte do Programa de Geoquímica Ambiental conduzido pelo Serviço Geológico do Brasil, em parceria com a Fiocruz  O Serviço Geológico do Brasil (SGB-CPRM), em parceria com a Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), participou … Continue reading

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« ¡Yanomami – luchando por la existencia en nuestra tierra sagrada! »

« Hace exactamente 8 años, el pueblo Yanomami comenzó a experimentar sufrimiento, como consecuencia de la negligencia del Estado brasileño que supuestamente debía protegernos, pero nos dejó a merced de los invasores y la falta de asistencia. En el período de … Continue reading

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