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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.

« La Sorcellerie Aveuglante de l’Or … Pour nos aînés, l’or n’était que des flocons brillants sur le sable, comme du mica. »

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

« Pour nos aînés, l’or n’était que des flocons brillants sur le sable des lits des cours d’eau, comme du mica. Ils l’ont recueilli pour en faire une substance de sorcellerie destinée à aveugler les personnes avec lesquelles ils étaient en … Continue reading →

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Deforestation of Brazil’s indigenous lands on the rise – The Rio Times —

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

Deforestation of Brazil’s indigenous lands on the rise – The Rio Times https://ift.tt/3Fvxn6e The Rio Times Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2tI2HiE Deforestation of Brazil’s indigenous lands on the rise – The Rio Times —

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A morte dos rios! — Garimpo ilegal destrói mais de 600 quilômetros de corpos d’água nos territórios Munduruku e Sai Cinza! — GREENPEACE — OBIND

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

Garimpo ilegal destrói mais de 600 quilômetros de corpos d’água nos territórios Munduruku e Sai Cinza, no Pará Play Monitoramento inédito realizado  pelo Greenpeace Brasil mostrou que, desde 2016, o  1,147 more words GREENPEACE: A morte dos rios — OBIND

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« The Blinding Sorcery of Gold … To our elders, gold was just shiny flakes on the sand, like mica »

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

« To our elders, gold was just shiny flakes on the sand of the forest’s stream beds, like mica. They collected it to make a sorcery substance intended to blind people with whom they were angry. … this metal dust was … Continue reading →

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Pygmy Marmoset Cebuella niveiventris and Cebuella pygmaea — Palm Oil Detectives

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

Pygmy Marmoset Cebuella niveiventris and Cebuella pygmaea Vulnerable Western pygmy marmoset Cebuella pygmaea Brazil; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru Eastern pygmy marmoset Cebuella niveiventris Brazil Pygmy Marmosets have undergone a population reduction suspected to be >30% over a three-generation period (18 years) … Continue reading →

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Desmontando el discurso minero de la seguridad jurídica — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

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

Por Alberto Acosta 06/01/2022 Ecos de una histórica sentencia constitucional “Esta sentencia rompe con la concepción instrumentista de considerar a la naturaleza como un simple objeto material de apropiación y explotación reducida a un mero recurso natural para dar paso … Continue reading →

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« L’ORO non è altro che polvere scintillante nel fango … Niente è abbastanza forte per ripristinare il valore della foresta malata … Nessuna merce può comprare tutti gli esseri umani divorati dai fumi epidemici. »

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

« I bianchi diffondono i loro fumi epidemici in tutta la foresta … strappando oro e altri minerali dal terreno. Non vogliono rinunciare alla loro frenesia di scavo e il loro pensiero rimane chiuso. A loro interessa solo cucinare questo … Continue reading →

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Crise ambiental em Alter do Chão: águas de ‘Caribe amazônico’ ficam turvas em meio a alta no garimpo no Pará —

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

Fotografia aérea feita em janeiro mostra águas barrentas do Tapajós em contato com o Lago Verde, em Alter do Chão. Por Erik Jennings Simões Por João Fellet  da  BBC News Brasil em São Paulo Quem visita o distrito paraense de … Continue reading →

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The River — Existe Guarani em São Paulo

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

For many indigenous cultures, a river is not a natural resource, but a living entity with a personality. In some cases, he is considered a close relative, so he is treated with respect. The indigenous’s connection with nature is so … Continue reading →

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« El ORO no es más que polvo brillante en el barro … Nada es lo suficientemente fuerte como para restaurar el valor del bosque enfermo … Ninguna mercancía puede comprar a todos los seres humanos devorados por los humos epidémicos. »

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

« Los blancos esparcen sus humos epidémicos por todo el bosque … arrancando oro y otros minerales de la tierra. No quieren abandonan su frenesí de excavación y su pensamiento permanece cerrado. Todo lo que les importa es cocinar este … Continue reading →

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