Author Archives: Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Unknown's avatar

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.

«Nous oublions et nous nous considérons supérieurs… Mais nous ne sommes après tout qu’une partie de la création.» – Nous devons tous revoir notre rapport à la Nature et réorienter notre association avec le consumérisme ! 

Posted on March 14, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

«Je ne vois pas de délégation pour les quatre pattes. Je ne vois pas de siège pour les aigles. Nous oublions et nous nous considérons supérieurs. Mais nous ne sommes après tout qu’une partie de la création. Et nous devons … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Gold used in Italian wedding rings linked to Amazon deforestation – Gold used in EVERYTHING is linked to Amazon deforestation and the degradation of Indigenous lives!

Posted on March 14, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Gold used in Italian wedding rings linked to Amazon deforestation – TDPel Media https://ift.tt/oqz2jt9 Gold used in Italian wedding rings linked to Amazon deforestation  TDPel Media Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/qC5K7NB Gold used in Italian wedding rings linked to Amazon … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Ecocídio no Pantanal: Incêndios florestais no Brasil mataram cerca de 17 milhões de animais!

Posted on March 14, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Cientistas visitaram uma área do Pantanal 48 horas após um incêndio Por Victoria Gill,  correspondente de Ciências, BBC News Em meio à desolação de 2020, os cientistas no Brasil concluíram um estudo de conservação particularmente sombrio – tentando contar os … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

«We forget and we consider ourselves superior… But we are after all a mere part of Creation.» – We all must revise our relationship with Nature and reorient our association with consumerism!  

Posted on March 13, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles.  We forget & we consider ourselves superior. But we are after all a mere part of Creation.  We stand somewhere between the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Carta Capital desnuda padrão de dupla moral dos países ricos: intensa pressão para abrir mineração em áreas indígenas da Amazônia brasileira!

Posted on March 13, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

(…) A despeito da necessária pressão da comunidade internacional para que o Brasil cuide melhor de suas florestas, os governos de alguns desses países atuam, nos bastidores, para liberar a mineração em terras indígenas, com inevitáveis e irreversíveis impactos sobre … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Observatório dos Agrotóxicos: a tsunami de agrotóxicos do governo Bolsonaro não para e mais 25 produtos foram liberados hoje —

Posted on March 13, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

A tsunami de agrotóxicos do governo Bolsonaro não para. No dia de hoje, por meio do Ato No. 14 de 7 de março de 2022 foram liberados mais 25 agrotóxicos. Agora o “grand total” do governo Bolsonaro chegou a 1.634 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

«La terra non appartiene all’uomo, l’uomo appartiene alla terra. L’uomo non ha tessuto la trama della vita, è solo un filo. Qualunque cosa faccia alla rete della vita, la fa a se stesso.» 

Posted on March 12, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Insegnerai ai tuoi figli quello che abbiamo insegnato ai nostri figli?” Che la terra è nostra madre? Ciò che accade alla terra accade a tutti i figli della terra. Sappiamo che la terra non appartiene all’uomo, l’uomo appartiene alla terra. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

IPCC report: Effects of climate crisis will deepen in Latin America – Diálogo Chino

Posted on March 12, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

IPCC report: Effects of climate crisis will deepen in Latin America – Diálogo Chino https://ift.tt/B3aGxjQ IPCC report: Effects of climate crisis will deepen in Latin America  Diálogo Chino Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/uexjyAX IPCC report: Effects of climate crisis will … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Desmatamento na Amazônia: Deter 2022 registra o pior fevereiro da série histórica!

Posted on March 12, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Monitoramento de Queimadas na Amazônia em setembro de 2021. © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas Manaus, 11 de março de 2022 – Dados do sistema Deter, do Instituto de Pesquisas Espaciais (Inpe), divulgados hoje, reafirmam que o desmatamento na maior … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

« La tierra no es del hombre, el hombre pertenece a la tierra. El hombre no ha tejido la telaraña de la vida, es solo un hilo. Todo lo que hace con la red de la vida, él se hace esto a sí mismo. »

Posted on March 11, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

«¿Les está enseñando a sus hijos lo que nosotros les enseñamos a nuestros hijos? ¿Que la tierra es nuestra madre? Lo que le pasa a la tierra le pasa a todos los hijos de la tierra. Sabemos que la tierra … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments