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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.

PF deflagra operação contra lavagem de dinheiro advindo de ouro ilegal em Roraima — Ecoamazônia

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Operação BAL investiga mais de R$ 60 milhões relacionados ao contrabando de ouro e mineração ilegal Boa Vista/RR. A Polícia Federal deflagrou na manhã desta sexta-feira (10/2) a operação BAL, com o objetivo de investigar uma organização criminosa que coordenaria … Continue reading →

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‘Operation Exodus’: Brazil gold miners flee Yanomami land – to prospect in other Indigenous lands! • FRANCE 24 English — msamba

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

As the Amazon rainforest tops the agenda. Brazil has launched an effort to expel thousands of gold miners that are working there illegaly and who are blamed for causing a humanitarian crisis. FRANCE 24’s Emerald Maxwell tells us more. #Brazil … Continue reading →

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Essere il mio Valentino? – Se i cercatori cercassero l’oro nel tuo giardino e contaminassero la tua unica fonte d’acqua con il mercurio, ti abbelliresti ancora con gioielli d’oro?

Posted on February 16, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Siamo diventati individui totalmente manipolati dal marketing, ridotti alla nostra sola funzione di consumo? Siamo ansiosi di acquistare e consumare qualsiasi cosa, in modo compulsivo, frenetico, ostentato, senza alcuna considerazione delle conseguenze delle nostre scelte? I popoli Indigeni usano l’acqua … Continue reading →

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Como alcançar o céu Yanomami se a imagem capturada está disseminada na internet? — SUMAÚMA

Posted on February 16, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

O dramático impasse dos indígenas que, para denunciar seu genocídio ao mundo, precisam correr o risco de não alcançar a felicidade após a morte Como alcançar o céu Yanomami se a imagem capturada está disseminada na internet? — SUMAÚMA

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

Posted on February 16, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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?

Posted on February 15, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

¿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

Posted on February 15, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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

Posted on February 15, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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?

Posted on February 14, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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

Posted on February 14, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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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