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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.

Un cuento de iniciación: « La Magia de la Amazonia Las aventuras de Namowë, un niño Yanomami » – ¡Para edades de 8 a 12 a 100 años! – escrito y ilustrado por Barbara Crane Navarro

« Desde sus primeras páginas, La Magie de l’Amazonie, este libro encantador para niños describe un mundo casi inimaginable en el siglo XXI. Un mundo tropical, exuberante y agitado, desbordante de una vida en comunión con los espíritus de los animales … Continue reading →

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The fantastic anatomy of spiders – all you have to know! — msamba

This video is about the fascinating and fantastic anatomy of spiders by means of a vivid 3D animation of a black widow. It is about the external structure with cephalothorax / prosoma and abdomen, chelicerae, pedipals and about the organs … Continue reading →

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Un conte initiatique : « La Magie de l’Amazonie – Les aventures de Namowë, un garçon Yanomami » – Pour les 8 à 12 à 100 ans! – écrit et illustré par Barbara Crane Navarro

« Dès ses premières pages La Magie de l’Amazonie, cet attachant livre pour enfants, décrit un monde presque inimaginable au XXIe siècle. Un monde tropical, luxuriant et agité, débordant d’une vie en communion avec les esprits des animaux et des plantes. … Continue reading →

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How Many Legs Are Best? — msamba

This is an important question. — Featured Artists: Wayne Barlowe’s Website: https://waynebarlowe.com/ Wayne Barlowe’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waynebarlow… Alex Ries Website: https://www.alexries.com/ Alex Ries Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/alexries Exobiotica Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/exobiotica/ Exobiotica DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/michaelbea… Have you ever wondered, ‘what is the best number of … Continue reading →

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A Classic Initiation Tale – The Amazon as Oz: « Amazon Rainforest Magic, The adventures of Namowë, a Yanomami boy » – For ages 8 to 12 to 100!  – written and illustrated by Barbara Crane Navarro

“From its opening pages, this engaging children’s book sets the scene of a world almost unimaginable in the 21st century, a lush, restive, tropical world alive with the spirits of animals and plants. It begins inside a Yanomami dwelling. A … Continue reading →

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Uncovering secrets of the glasswing butterfly’s see-through wings! — Palm Oil Detectives

Most butterflies sport colourful, eye-catching wings. But some species flit about using mostly transparent wings. Researchers have now uncovered the tricks that one of these — the glasswing butterfly (Greta oto) — uses to hide in plain sight.Researchers viewed the wings of … Continue reading →

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One Gold Band. Twenty TONS of Waste.

Originally posted on Midwest Mary:
https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/img_1043.jpeg We do love our luxuries and conveniences. Gold, silver, diamonds, and precious jewels make us feel sophisticated, elegant, and important. But how many of us are aware of the impact our adornments have on…

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“Oro legale”: la società aurifera quotata a Londra Serabi Gold sta estraendo oro nella miniera di Coringa senza l’approvazione delle comunità indigene interessate o delle autorità brasiliane!

Regione dell’Amazzonia brasiliana delle comunità Baú e Kayapó Mekrãgnoti. Su Twitter, Serabi Gold @Serabi_Gold “Una società brasiliana di estrazione e sviluppo dell’oro quotata su AIM (SRB) e TSX (SBI, con attività situate nella regione di Tapajós nello ‘Stato del Pará’” … Continue reading →

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Comunidade caiçara do Guarujá fará denúncia internacional contra a Cargill!

Moradores e pescadores do Sítio Conceiçãozinha reclamam de não terem sido ouvidos sobre obras de ampliação do terminal da gigante mundial dos alimentos, que deverá fechar antiga saída para o mar Por Cida de Oliveira, da RBA São Paulo – A … Continue reading →

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Utah’s Suicide Pact With the Fossil Fuel Industry! — Mother Jones

The GPS coordinates weren’t especially helpful last May as we drove across the remote Tavaputs Plateau in Utah’s Uinta Basin. Cell service was spotty in the vast expanse of land crosshatched with unpaved roads identified on the map only as … Continue reading →

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