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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.

“Be My Valentine”? – Perfume Commercials are Insane! — Am I Reading Too Much into This?

It’s Christmas! It’s Valentine’s Day! and that means only one thing: perfume commercials that perpetually depict women as unhinged lunatics. Don’t believe me? Watch some. A quick spritz and women are provoking fights with their lovers and jumping off piers… … 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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Partido Verde questiona regra sobre responsabilidade na compra de ouro de garimpo — Ecoamazônia

Segundo a legenda, a norma permite que ouro ilegal oriundo da Amazônia seja escoado com aparência de legalidade. O Partido Verde (PV) ingressou no Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) com a Ação Direta de Inconstitucionalidade (ADI) 7345 para questionar trecho da … Continue reading

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CFP—”Culture and Global Responsibility: Rethinking Habitability…” — Repeating Islands

An international, interdisciplinary conference—“Culture and Global Responsibility: Rethinking Habitability in the Age of the Anthropocene”—will take place on May 12-14, 2023, at the University of Warwick.  The program will include a film screening and virtual Q & A. The deadline … Continue reading

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Seja meu namorado? – Se garimpeiros estivessem garimpando ouro em seu quintal 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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Residuos de petróleo presentes en pesticidas son 8.288 veces más tóxicos — Stigmatis News

Dieciséis compuestos analizados en pesticidas contienen residuos de petróleo y son 8.288 veces más tóxicos que las fórmulas de los pesticidas declarados que se utilizan en la agricultura, desvela una investigación realizada por el profesor de biología molecular francés, Gilles-Éric … Continue reading

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Spoiled Fruit: Land-grabbing, violence and slavery for “sustainable” palm oil! — Palm Oil Detectives

C4ADS analysis shows that the food conglomerates that feed millions—including giants such as Nestlé, Cargill, Adani Wilmar, IOI, Olenex and more —continue to enable forced labor through their indiscriminate import of tainted palm oil associated with slavery, indigenous land-grabbing, deforestation … 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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A dura luta para retomar o território Yanomami do controle dos criminosos — SUMAÚMA

Depois de quatro anos de negligência deliberada do governo Bolsonaro, o cotidiano é marcado pela constante retirada de indígenas mortos e quase mortos e por um plano ainda incerto de expulsão de milhares de garimpeiros ilegais e bem armados A dura … Continue reading

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The Double-Edged Sword of Deep Sea Mining — Mother Jones

This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The ocean seafloor is one of the last true frontiers of the unexplored and unexploited. 1,433 more words The Double-Edged Sword of Deep Sea Mining — Mother … Continue reading

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