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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.

“Or légal” : La société aurifère cotée à la bourse de Londres, Serabi Gold, extrait de l’or à la mine de Coringa sans l’approbation des communautés autochtones concernées ni des autorités brésiliennes !

Posted on May 9, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Sur Twitter, Serabi Gold @Serabi_Gold “Une société d’extraction et de développement d’or axée sur le Brésil et cotée à l’AIM (SRB) et à la TSX (SBI, avec des actifs situés dans la région de Tapajos dans l’État de Para.” a … Continue reading →

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Atlas dos Agrotóxicos tem segunda edição: conheça fatos e números sobre produtos químicos tóxicos na agricultura —

Posted on May 9, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Por Joan Lanfranco, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung* Enquanto a tensão está aumentando entre os Estados-Membros da União Europeia (UE) sobre as novas metas de redução de agrotóxicos, o Atlas de Agrotóxicos foi publicado em Dezembro de 2022 por Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung , Friends of the … Continue reading →

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US (and elsewhere?) food pesticides contaminated with toxic ‘forever chemicals’ testing finds! — Stigmatis News

Posted on May 9, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

PFAS are present at ‘potentially dangerous’ levels in widely used chemicals sprayed on food crops destined for Americans’ plates Tom Perkins Spraying pesticide at grape vineyard in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Photograph: Education Images/UIG/Getty Images Some of the United States’ … Continue reading →

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“Legal Gold”: London-listed Gold company, Serabi Gold, has been extracting gold at the Coringa mine without approval of affected Indigenous communities nor the Brazilian land authorities!

Posted on May 8, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

photo: Serabi Gold Company On Twitter, Serabi Gold @Serabi_Gold “A Brazilian focused gold mining and development company listed on AIM (SRB) and TSX (SBI, with assets located in the Tapajos region of Para State.” announced on April 20, 2023: “#Serabi … Continue reading →

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Observatório dos Agrotóxicos: Em contradição com o discurso da vitória, governo Lula dá continuidade à liberação desenfreada de venenos agrícolas!

Posted on May 8, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Venho dizendo que a questão dos agrotóxicos e a política de liberação de produtos banidos em outras partes do mundo por sua alta periculosidade é um dos principais desafios do governo Lula, na medida em que explicitará tensões internas e … Continue reading →