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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.

The year ahead for water: Creative destruction! — Stigmatis

From the “Uberization” of the water sector to radical decentralization to a new partnership model, these themes will ripple across the industry in 2023. Image via Shutterstock/Sandris Veveris By Will Sarni | Jan.13 2023 This year, we will see the water … Continue reading →

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A marcha do veneno: 14 mil pessoas foram intoxicadas por agrotóxicos durante governo Bolsonaro!

Casos levaram a uma morte a cada três dias; número real de intoxicações pode ser até 50 vezes maior Por Bruno Fonseca, Júlia Rohden, Agência Pública/Repórter Brasil Durante o governo de Jair Bolsonaro (PL), 14.549 pessoas foram intoxicadas por agrotóxicos … Continue reading →

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Pour les cadeaux de la Saint Valentin ? – Toute cette forêt tropicale perdue, tout ce mercure s’infiltrant dans les systèmes d’eau, empoisonnant les peuples autochtones et la faune. Juste pour un peu d’or ! Le vrai prix de cet or est beaucoup trop élevé… Nous ne pouvons pas nous le permettre !

«Vous ne comprenez pas pourquoi nous voulons protéger notre forêt? Demandez-moi, je vous répondrai! Nos ancêtres ont été créés avec elle au début des temps. Depuis, notre peuple a mangé son gibier et ses fruits. Nous voulons que nos enfants … Continue reading →

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Madagascar’s Unique Creatures Face a Wave of Extinction! — Mother Jones

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. From the ring-tailed lemur to the aye-aye, a nocturnal primate, more than 20 million years of unique evolutionary history could be wiped from the planet if … Continue reading →

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Uso indiscriminado de agrotóxicos: desafio para o governo Lula –

A cana-de-açúcar, juntamente com a soja e o milho, são as três principais culturas agroindustriais que mais utilizam agrotóxicos em sua produção. No Brasil, juntos, eles usam 80% de todos os pesticidas aplicados. Crédito da imagem: Andrés Garzón/Flickr , sob licença Creative Commons (CC BY … Continue reading →

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For Valentine’s Day gifts? – All that rainforest lost, all that mercury leaching into the water systems, poisoning Indigenous peoples and wildlife. Just for some gold?! The true price of that gold is far too high… We can’t afford it!

« You don’t understand why we want to protect our forest? Ask me, I will answer you!  Our ancestors were created with it in the beginning of time. Since then, our people have eaten its game and its fruit. We … Continue reading →

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Chocolate and deforestation — The Green Stars Project

Chocolate plays a significant role in deforestation, particularly in West Africa. Avoid mainstream chocolate brands and seek out chocolate made from shade-grown cacao. The post Chocolate and deforestation appeared first on The Green Stars Project. Chocolate and deforestation — The Green … Continue reading →

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Reservas con indígenas aislados son las más amenazadas de Amazonía brasileña — Stigmatis

Imagen de archivo de sombra indígenas. EFE/ Ulises Rodríguez Río de Janeiro | 11 ene. 2023 Las reservas indígenas de la Amazonía brasileña donde se ha registrado la presencia de nativos aislados son las más amenazadas del bioma, según un … Continue reading →

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« L’ORO non è altro che polvere scintillante nel fango … Niente è abbastanza forte per ripristinare il valore della foresta malata … Nessuna merce può comprare tutti gli esseri umani divorati dai fumi epidemici. »

« I bianchi diffondono i loro fumi epidemici in tutta la foresta … strappando oro e altri minerali dal terreno. Non vogliono rinunciare alla loro frenesia di scavo e il loro pensiero rimane chiuso. A loro interessa solo cucinare questo … Continue reading →

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Povo da Terra Indígena mais desmatada no Brasil se mobiliza contra invasores!

Foto: Arquivo Pessoal/Alexandre Muller Por Alexandre Muller, especial para o Correio da Cidadania Estamos na aldeia Apyterewa, aldeia mãe da Terra Indígena de mesmo nome, localizada na beira do rio Xingu, no sudoeste do Pará. Em um contexto de invasão … Continue reading →

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