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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.

Molti acquirenti d’oro si stabilirono nei paesi ricchi; La Svizzera, il Canada e il Regno Unito hanno acquistato il 72% delle esportazioni di oro del Brasile e contribuiscono alla violenza, alla deforestazione, all’inquinamento e alla mortale contaminazione da mercurio associati all’estrazione illegale dell’oro! – Se acquisti o indossi oro, questo potrebbe anche essere correlato a te!

Posted on November 19, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« I miei antenati sono morti della stessa cosa che sto affrontando ora; l’estrazione illegale dell’oro e le epidemie diffuse dai minatori. I minatori d’oro portano Covid-19 xawara e violenza. » Dario Kopenawa Yanomami All’inizio di novembre 2021, Dario Kopenawa Yanomami ha … Continue reading →

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Post-COP26: Addendum 2 – Accord on Carbon Markets — The World is On Fire

Posted on November 19, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

As a second addendum to my recent summary of COP26, I want to convey the importance of the accord on carbon markets. This accord resolves aspects of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. There had been wrangling over this issue … Continue reading →

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Politicians Subsidise Fossil Fuels with Six Trillion Dollars in Just One Year — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Posted on November 19, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Human Wrongs Watch By Baher Kamal* MADRID, Nov 16 2021 (IPS)* – It sounds incredible: while politicians have been cackling about the climate emergency and profiling in empty promises to halt it, they have spent six trillion US dollars from … Continue reading →

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Muchos compradores de oro establecidos en países ricos; Suiza, Canadá y el Reino Unido han comprado el 72% de las exportaciones de oro de Brasil y contribuyen a la violencia, la deforestación y la contaminación mortal por mercurio asociada con la extracción ilegal de oro. – Si compras o usas oro, ¡esto también podría estar relacionado contigo!

Posted on November 18, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Mis antepasados murieron precisamente por lo que estoy enfrentando ahora; minería ilegal de oro y epidemias propagadas por mineros de oro. Los mineros de oro traen Covid-19 xawara y violencia. » Dario Kopenawa Yanomami A principios de noviembre de 2021, Dario … Continue reading →