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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.

Janeiro com desmatamento recorde mostra que Jair Bolsonaro continua passando sua boiada sobre a Amazônia!

Posted on February 16, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Dados do Deter/Inpe apontam recorde de desmatamento na Amazônia, ao mesmo tempo em que o clima extremo afeta milhares de brasileiros.  Área queimada no Parque Nacional do Juruena e na Terra Indígena Apiaká do Pontal e Isolados (sobreposição entre UC … Continue reading →

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« No all’ORO! – Pas de Cartier! » Yanomami e Alberi – miniere d’oro e oggetti di lusso in oro / mostra 2022

Posted on February 15, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Gli sciamani Yanomami che combattono l’epidemia di xawara vedono apparire l’immagine della malattia sotto forma di bande di stoffa scarlatta. L’epidemia di xawara si sta avvicinando e il suo fumo risplende! Rende il cielo un fantasma e divora tutto Umani … Continue reading →

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A caligrafia de Bolsonaro, o assassino do clima!

Posted on February 15, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Peter Steiniger fala sobre novos recordes de desmatamento na Amazônia Em nível recorde: áreas queimadas e desmatadas na região amazônica. Foto: dpa / Fernando Souza Por Peter Steiniger para o Neues Deutschland A política de Jair Bolsonaro visa criar uma faixa … Continue reading →

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John Deere and Brazilian bank team up to equip ranchers and farmers deforesting the Amazon – Mongabay.com

Posted on February 15, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

John Deere and Brazilian bank team up to equip farmers deforesting the Amazon – Mongabay.com https://ift.tt/QmSqKHv John Deere and Brazilian bank team up to equip farmers deforesting the Amazon  Mongabay.com Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/LiMrdnt John Deere and Brazilian bank … Continue reading →

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« ¡No al ORO! – ¡Pas de Cartier! » Yanomami y árboles – minería de oro y artículos de lujo de oro / exposición 2022

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

« Los chamanes Yanomami que luchan contra la epidemia de xawara ven aparecer la imagen de la enfermedad en forma de bandas de tela escarlata. ¡La epidemia de xawara se acerca y su humo brilla! Hace que el cielo sea un fantasma y devora a … Continue reading →

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Ouro ilegal de Terra Indígena termina em gigante italiana — Por favor, ajude a parar este tragédia! – Por favor, Boicote o Ouro! – Ecoamazônia

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

Inocentes noivos italianos podem estar carregando em suas mãos parte da destruição da Terra Indígena Kayapó, no sul do Pará. Graças a um esquema criminoso, o ouro extraído ilegalmente dessa Terra Indígena é esquentado e chega à italiana Chimet – … Continue reading →

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Climate Change is Killing the Crappy Fake Lake of My Youth – a microcosm of the climate-change induced water woes facing the West as global temperatures rise and droughts become more severe — Mother Jones

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

Ogden, Utah, is a long way from the beach. To the west is the Great Salt Lake, a huge salty body of water, but one so stagnant, buggy, and smelly that no one would want to swim in it more than … Continue reading →

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« Não ao OURO! – Pas de Cartier! » Yanomami e árvores – Mineração de ouro e artigos de luxo em ouro / exposição 2022

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

« Os xamãs Yanomami que lutam contra a epidemia de xawara veem a imagem da doença aparecer forma de tiras de tecido escarlate. A epidemia de xawara está se aproximando e sua fumaça está vermelha brilhante! Ele transforma o céu em … Continue reading →

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A CAÓTICA EXPLORAÇÃO DE PETRÓLEO NA FLORESTA AMAZÔNICA NO EQUADOR  — ÁGUA, VIDA & CIA — Fernando José de Sousa

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

De acordo com dados do Ministério do Meio Ambiente do Equador e que foram analisados pela Amazon Frontlines, um grupo internacional que luta na defesa dos direitos dos povos indígenas, ocorreram 1.169 vazamentos de petróleo no país entre 2005 e 2015. Cerca … Continue reading →

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The role of suburbs in “a nearly natureless world” — Legally Sociable

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

An MIT professor describes our current world as “nearly natureless”: Photo by Armin Rimoldi on Pexels.com Many of us invest hours each day staring at the screens of our televisions and computers and smartphones. Seldom do we go outside on … Continue reading →

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