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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.

To paraphrase Yanomami shaman and spokesman Davi Kopenawa: « The luxury jewelry industry is a trap for the Yanomami people. Cartier uses their ‘friendship’ to deceive and manipulate us. What they want is to extract our wealth and send it to other countries. The wealth of our Yanomami land, they will take it and send it to China, Japan, Germany and elsewhere. It’s their way of thinking. It’s their concern, earning money, earning money to get rich. »

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

Organized crime controls illegal gold distribution and illegally mined gold commands an important share of the world’s gold market. In the case of Latin America experts estimate that one half of the region’s exported gold is mined illegally.Narco-traffickers are contributing … Continue reading →

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MPF e líderes Indígenas se reúnem para tratar do garimpo ilegal em Roraima — Ecoamazônia

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

As lideranças relataram os principais problemas causados pela atividade mineradora em terras indígenas O Ministério Público Federal (MPF) recebeu líderes e membros de comunidades indígenas, nesta terça-feira (19), para tratar sobre a mineração ilegal nas áreas demarcadas do norte de … Continue reading →

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Hundreds of hectares of pristine rainforest destroyed by illegal gold mining in Venezuela! — Ecoamazônia

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

Over 1,200 hectares of pristine rainforest in Venezuela’s southern Bolívar state have been destroyed by unregulated mining operations and other illegal activities taking place within the so-called Orinoco Mining Arc. 41 more words Hundreds of hectares of pristine rainforest destroyed by illegal … Continue reading →

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COLONIALISMO del 21 ° secolo: implementato da corporazioni e ONG? Di chi è in gioco la sopravvivenza qui, Survival? La sopravvivenza delle foreste pluviali e delle popolazioni Indigene o di Cartier e altri nel settore della gioielleria in oro e diamanti? … Aggiornato luglio 2022!

Posted on July 21, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/justicia-regenwald-4.jpg “Oro o Natura?” – ©?Fotolia/ Wikimedia/Collage: Mirela Hadzic per il salvataggio della foresta pluviale “La follia dell’uomo ha aumentato il valore dell’oro e dell’argento a causa della loro scarsità; mentre la natura, come…

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Illegal gold mining in the Amazon is the equivalent to half of Brazil’s production! — Ecoamazônia – Please Boycott Gold!

Posted on July 21, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Between 2015 and 2020, Brazil traded 229 tonnes of gold with evidence of illegality, equivalent to almost half of the gold produced and exported by the country, according to a new report from NGO Instituto Escolhas. The organization says most … Continue reading →

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Artistas brasileiras inauguram exposição em Munique com obras contra mineradoras e empresas de certificação!

Posted on July 21, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

9.390 km separam Brumadinho de Munique. Mas, neste sábado, a conexão entre as duas cidades será por meio de uma exposição sobre as tragédias da mineração Paisagens Mineradas, de Isadora Canela, é uma das obras em exposição Existe uma triste … Continue reading →

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COLONIALISMO del siglo XXI: ¿implementado por corporaciones y ONG? ¿De quién está en juego la supervivencia aquí, Survival? ¿La supervivencia de los bosques tropicales y los pueblos Indígenas o Cartier y otros en la industria de la joyería de oro y diamantes? … ¡Actualizado en julio de 2022!

Posted on July 20, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/justicia-regenwald-3.jpg “¿Oro o Naturaleza?” – © Fotolia / Wikimedia / Collage: Mirela Hadzic para Rainforest Rescue “La necedad del hombre aumentó el valor del oro y la plata debido a su escasez; mientras que…

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Amazon Rainforest: Highest deforestation rate in six years! – BBC News — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Posted on July 20, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Some 3,988 square kilometres (1,540 square miles) of land were cleared in the region between January and June. Last year, 3,088 square kilometres of the rainforest were destroyed during the same period. The Amazon plays an essential role in the … Continue reading →

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3 associations en lutte contre l’hécatombe des espèces disparues — Journalisme : actu, culture, faits de société..

Posted on July 20, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Près d’un million d’espèces dans le monde sont en voie d’extinction selon l’ONU. Triste record planétaire. C’est tout un écosystème qui est fragilisé. En Europe, 80 % des insectes volants sont morts en trois décennies. 90 % des grands poissons … Continue reading →

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COLONIALISMO do século 21 – implementado por corporações e ONGs? Cuja sobrevivência está em jogo aqui, Survival? A sobrevivência das florestas tropicais e dos povos Indígenas ou da Cartier e outros na indústria de joias de ouro e diamantes? … Atualizado em julho de 2022!

Posted on July 19, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/justicia-regenwald-2.jpg “Ouro ou Natureza?” – © Fotolia / Wikimedia / Collage: Mirela Hadzic para o resgate da floresta tropical “A tolice do homem aumentou o valor do ouro e da prata por causa de…

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