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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.

Jane Goodall on hope, fatigue and finding pockets of nature | The Narwhal — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Posted on December 25, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Source: Jane Goodall on hope, fatigue and finding pockets of nature | The Narwhal Jane Goodall on hope, fatigue and finding pockets of nature | The Narwhal — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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Charles Dicken’s A Christmas, Timeless Carol. (Merry Xmas) — lampmagician

Posted on December 25, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

As today is a special day and many people are busy with celebrations and presents, I thought that I shouldn’t make it so difficult and with one post make me, and hopefully you, a pleasure. And it couldn’t be better … Continue reading →

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Happiest Holidays!

Posted on December 24, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project
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Season’s Greetings! Bullwinkle vs Rudolph — Circle to Circle

Posted on December 24, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Battle for the North Bullwinkle vs Rudolph — Circle to Circle

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Pictured: Finalists of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2022! — Stigmatis — Tiny Life

Posted on December 24, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

From ‘flying horses’ to ‘headless’ penguins, these images capture animals in their most playful light By Telegraph Reporters | 21 Oct. 2022 Credit: Jagdeep Rajput/ Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2022 Pegasus, the flying horse The Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards have announced … Continue reading →

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Domanda sui regali di Natale? – 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 December 23, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Dobbiamo ripensare il nostro rapporto con l’intero mondo vivente e non pensare più come consumatori in un’economia, ma riconoscere che siamo organismi in un ecosistema. I popoli Indigeni usano l’acqua di fiumi e torrenti nei loro territori ancestrali per bere, … Continue reading →

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World strikes agreement to stop biodiversity loss — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Posted on December 23, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Immediate action is needed to deliver on this global goal In a big win for biodiversity, countries struck a global agreement to halt and reverse … World strikes agreement to stop biodiversity loss World strikes agreement to stop biodiversity loss — … Continue reading →

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“Tāne-Mahuta” — “Taniwha Tales” — MARY CALVO

Posted on December 23, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

“The Keeper of the Sacred Forest” ​“If I should fall… the earth shall die…” Tāne-Mahuta, god and guardian of the sacred forests and its inhabitants, uttered these terrifying words before plunging his feet deep into the earth of Te Ika-A-Māui … Continue reading →

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¿Pregunta sobre el regalo de Navidad? – 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 December 22, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Necesitamos repensar nuestra relación con todo el mundo vivo y no pensar más como consumidores en una economía, sino reconocer que somos organismos en un ecosistema. Los pueblos indígenas utilizan el agua de los ríos y arroyos en sus territorios … Continue reading →

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‘We Indigenous Peoples Are Rights-Holders, Not Stakeholders’ — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Posted on December 22, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Human Wrongs Watch By Jennifer Tauli Corpuz and Stanley Kimaren Ole Riamit* Dec 8 2022 (IPS)* – After four failed rainy seasons, the land of the Maasai has withered. The worst drought in 40 years is a slow-motion storm of … Continue reading →

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