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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.

« O OURO nada mais é do que pó brilhante na lama … Nada é sólido o suficiente para restaurar o valor da floresta doente … Nenhuma mercadoria pode comprar todos os seres humanos devorados por vapores epidêmicos. »

Posted on January 10, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Os brancos espalham seus fumos epidêmicos pela floresta … tirando ouro e outros minerais da terra. Eles não querem desistir do frenesi de cavar e seu pensamento está fechado. Tudo o que importa é queimar metal para fazer mercadorias. … Continue reading →

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Free-Flowing Rivers As Nature-Based Solutions — Stigmatis

Posted on January 10, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

The Zambezi River carrying sediment downstream. WWF Jeff Opperman Contributor | 27 Dec. 2022 This is the fifth in a seven-part series that explores the application of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to climate and nature challenges, with a focus on water management in Africa … Continue reading →

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We definitely need to prioritize what we use energy for! — Darcy Hitchcock

Posted on January 10, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Just as the Southwest is having to make tough choices about what to use Colorado River water for, we may have to do the same with energy. We may need to prioritize what we use energy for — Darcy Hitchcock

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« L’OR n’est rien de plus que de la poussière brillante dans la boue … Rien n’est assez solide pour restaurer la valeur de la forêt malade … Aucune marchandise ne peut acheter tous les êtres humains dévorés par les fumées épidémiques. »

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

« Les Blancs répandent leurs fumées épidémiques dans toute la forêt… en arrachant l’or et d’autres minéraux de la terre. Ils ne veulent pas abandonner leur frénésie de fouille et leur pensée reste fermée. Tout ce qui compte pour eux, c’est … Continue reading →

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Sustentabilidade para francês ver: Carrefour põe sua marca em açúcar ligado a crime ambiental!

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

Criador de abelhas com apiário destruído por pulverização de agrotóxicos em canaviais no interior paulista move ação contra o grupo francês As abelhas têm importância que vai além da produção de mel. São fundamentais na preservação da biodiversidade, já que … Continue reading →

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Dozens of Florida manatees in rehab amid ongoing starvation — Repeating Islands

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

Curt Anderson (AP News) reports on rehabilitation centers in Florida, Ohio, Puerto Rico, and Texas to keep manatees from dying of starvation. More than six dozen threatened manatees are currently in rehabilitation centers in Florida and elsewhere amid a chronic … Continue reading →

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« GOLD is nothing more than shiny dust in the mud … Nothing is solid enough to restore the sick forest’s value … No merchandise can buy all the human beings devoured by the epidemic fumes. »

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

« The white people spread their epidemic fumes throughout the entire forest…by tearing the gold and other minerals out of the earth. They do not want to give up their digging frenzy and their thought remains closed. All that matters to … Continue reading →

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Europa e seu neocolonialismo verde na América Latina!

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

Relações econômicas: A presença da União Europeia na América Latina está em declínio. Os acordos de livre comércio visam garantir a exploração dos recursos naturais com capa verde Vista aérea da instalação de Rockwood no deserto de Atacama, no norte … Continue reading →

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Environmental Protection Agency acknowledges that herbicides harm wildlife — Conservation Sense and Nonsense

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

“Restoration” professionals aggressively defend their use of herbicides because it is their preferred method to eradicate non-native plants.  Herbicides are the primary method of killing non-native plants because it is the cheapest method.  When the California Invasive Plant Council conducted … Continue reading →

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PER FAVORE, ASCOLTA IL MESSAGGIO DELLO SCIAMANO YANOMAMI – L’APPELLO DELLA FORESTA PLUVIALE! E scopri come possiamo aiutare i popoli Indigeni!

Posted on January 7, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

foto: Renato Soares « Ehi, guardaci! Ti vediamo Cerchiamo di mostrartelo Non ti sei mai preso la briga di imparare la nostra lingua Guardavi sempre in basso Ti avvertiamo dall’inizio La terra è viva Questa terra non può essere posseduta Questa … Continue reading →

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