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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.

Do you know your richest neighbor and invader? – Lara Trace Hentz. “Reserve?  Doesn’t that sound like a big game park, where you pay admission to see wild things trapped in captivity” ?

Posted on August 28, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Movoto The wealthiest American in every state (that 1% we keep hearing about) The geography of wealth inequality doesn’t get much attention. But it’s stark. There are about 450 billionaires with American citizenship — and almost 200 of them live … Continue reading →

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Morte Silenciosa – o problema da Europa com os agrotóxicos e a crise de biodiversidade que eles causam —

Posted on August 28, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Por Investigate Europe A Europa está presa em um relacionamento tóxico. Durante décadas, os agricultores confiaram em produtos químicos para produzir os alimentos que alimentam o continente. Os perigos dos agrotóxicos são amplamente conhecidos, mas seu uso permanece em grande parte sem … Continue reading →

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« Aujourd’hui, nous avons plus de groupes environnementaux et moins de forêts, plus de “zones protégées” et moins d’espèces, plus de taxes sur le carbone et plus d’émissions de carbone, plus de produits “verts” et moins d’espaces verts. »

Posted on August 27, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Oui, ça donne à réfléchir de reconnaître qu’en effet : “Aujourd’hui, nous avons plus de groupes environnementaux et moins de forêts, plus de “zones protégées” et moins d’espèces, plus de taxes sur le carbone et plus d’émissions de carbone, plus … Continue reading →

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The Unravelling of the Colonized Mind — Lara Trace Hentz

Posted on August 27, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

The Unravelling of a Colonized Mind by Jana-Rae Yerxa LAST REAL INDIANS By Jana-Rae Yerxa Sure everybody struggles. But to be born an Indigenous person, you are born into struggle. My struggle. Your struggle. Our struggle. The colonial struggle. There … Continue reading →

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Amazônia: degradação da floresta remanescente pode emitir tanto ou mais carbono que o desmatamento! —

Posted on August 27, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Em decorrência da ação humana, a maior floresta tropical do mundo já perdeu 30% de sua capacidade de reter CO2. Tema foi debatido em webinário promovido pela Aciesp em homenagem aos 60 anos da FAPESP (foto: Vinícius Mendonça/Ibama) José Tadeu … Continue reading →

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« Today, we have more environmental groups and less forests, more ‘protected areas’ and less species, more carbon taxes and greater carbon emissions, more ‘green’ products and less green space. »

Posted on August 26, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Yes, it’s sobering to recognize that, indeed: “Today, we have more environmental groups and less forests, more ‘protected areas’ and less species, more carbon taxes and greater carbon emissions, more ‘green’ products and less green space.” Rex Weyler (ten years … Continue reading →

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Pieds nus sur la terre sacrée par Teresa Carolyn McLuhan — Tsuvadra

Posted on August 26, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Dans la vie de l’indien, il n’y a qu’un devoir inévitable – le devoir de prière – la reconnaissance quotidienne de l’Invisible et de l’Éternel. Pieds nus sur la terre sacrée par Teresa Carolyn McLuhan — Tsuvadra

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Contaminação por mercúrio e impactos à saúde na Terra Indígena Yanomami — Ecoamazônia

Posted on August 26, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

O tema está sendo abordado por Paulo Basta, pesquisador da ENSP/Fiocruz, na sessão do Centro de Estudos desta sexta-feira (12/08) A sessão do Centro de Estudos do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC/Fiocruz) desta sexta-feira, dia 12 de agosto, aborda o tema … Continue reading →

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Deforestazione contro popolazioni indigene – V  « Quando abbatti gli alberi, attacchi gli spiriti dei nostri antenati. Quando scavi alla ricerca di minerali, impali il nucleo della Terra. »

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

« Quando abbatti gli alberi, attacchi gli spiriti dei nostri antenati. Quando scavi alla ricerca di minerali, impali il nucleo della Terra. E quando scarichi veleni sulla terra e nei fiumi – sostanze chimiche dall’agricoltura e mercurio dalle miniere d’oro – … Continue reading →

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Oglala Lakota Nation: Gold Mine Exploration Approval in Sacred Black Hills Fails to Comply with Law! — CENSORED NEWS — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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

Source: CENSORED NEWS: Oglala Lakota Nation: Gold Mine Exploration Approval in Sacred Black Hills Fails to Comply with Law CENSORED NEWS: Oglala Lakota Nation: Gold Mine Exploration Approval in Sacred Black Hills Fails to Comply with Law — Ned Hamson’s Second … Continue reading →

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