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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? – 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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¿Para los regalos de San Valentín? – Toda esa selva tropical perdida, todo ese mercurio que se filtra en los sistemas de agua, envenenando a los pueblos indígenas y la vida silvestre. ¡Solo por un poco de oro! ¡El verdadero precio de este oro es demasiado alto! ¡No podemos permitírnoslo! — Barbara Crane Navarro — MARY CALVO

Originally posted on mimismo: Madre y bebé Yanomami, Amazonas, Venezuela – foto: Barbara Crane Navarro https://www.youtube.com/embed/xHsocVWqT8E?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent «?¿No entiendes por qué queremos proteger nuestro bosque? ¡Pregúntame, te responderé! Nuestros antepasados fueron creados con él al principio de los tiempos. Desde entonces, … Continue reading

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Une mine de cuivre pourrait faire progresser l’énergie verte mais cicatriser la terre sacrée ! — Les Actualites — Tiny Life

SUPÉRIEUR, Arizona – Alors que Wendsler Nosie terminait ses prières du soir assis devant un feu de mesquite, un bâton de yucca de cérémonie orné de plumes d’aigle à ses côtés, il regarda sévèrement vers une mesa lointaine où les … Continue reading

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IL GENOCIDIO DEGLI YANOMAMI e la MORTE DELLA NATURA per la merce in oro e diamanti e L’ARTE DEL LAVAGGIO VERDE dei COMMERCIANTI D’ORO con le loro stesse parole… 2023

Il negozio Cartier vendono gioielli, orologi e accessori di lusso esclusivi in ​​oro e diamanti dal 1847 – foto: Cartier “Le cose vanno male dal 2015, quando il prezzo dell’oro ha iniziato a salire. La vita degli Yanomami è legata … Continue reading

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Amazônia: garimpo ilegal em terras indígenas subiu 1.217% em 35 anos! — Ecoamazônia

Área afetada passou de 7,45 km² em 1985 para 102,16 km² em 2020 A mineração ilegal em terras indígenas da Amazônia Legal aumentou 1.217% nos últimos 35 anos. 44 more words Amazônia: garimpo ilegal em terras indígenas subiu 1.217% em 35 … Continue reading

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How Native Americans Will Shape the Future of Water in the West — Stigmatis News

Tribal nations hold the rights to significant portions of the Colorado River. In the increasing drought, some are showing the way to sustainability. The Southwest’s protracted drought has put a strain on an already arid environment. Photograph by Wild Horizon … Continue reading

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EL GENOCIDIO YANOMAMI y la MUERTE de la NATURALEZA por la mercancía de oro y diamantes y el ARTE del LAVADO VERDE por parte de los COMERCIANTES del ORO en sus propias palabras… 2023

Las tiendas Cartier venden joyas, relojes y accesorios de lujo exclusivos en oro y diamantes desde 1847 – foto: Cartier “Las cosas han ido mal desde 2015, cuando el precio del oro empezó a subir. La vida de los Yanomami … Continue reading

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Relatos apontam 30 casos de jovens Yanomami grávidas de garimpeiros! — Ecoamazônia

Denúncias mostram que pelo menos 30 meninas e adolescentes yanomami estariam grávidas, vítimas de abusos cometidos por garimpeiros em Roraima, informou o secretário Nacional dos Direitos da Criança e do Adolescente, Ariel de Castro. 34 more words Relatos apontam 30 casos … Continue reading

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Brazil launches operation to drive illegal miners from Yanomami lands | Brazil | The Guardian — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

The Brazilian government has launched its campaign to drive tens of thousands of illegal miners from the country’s largest Indigenous reserve, with special-forces environmental operatives destroying aircraft and seizing weapons and boats during an operation deep in the Amazon’s Yanomami … Continue reading

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O GENOCÍDIO dos YANOMAMI e a MORTE da NATUREZA por Mercadorias de Ouro e Diamantes e a ARTE DE LAVAGEM VERDE pelos COMERCIANTES DE OURO em suas próprias palavras… 2023

As butiques Cartier vendem joias, relógios e acessórios de luxo exclusivos em ouro e diamantes desde 1847 – foto: Cartier “As coisas estão ruins desde 2015, quando o preço do ouro começou a subir. A vida Yanomami está atrelada ao … Continue reading

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