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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.

Why a soy roadmap could disconnect European meat consumption from South American deforestation – The Grocer —

Posted on October 24, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Why a soy roadmap could disconnect European meat consumption from South American deforestation – The Grocer https://ift.tt/3vC5G7Q Why a soy roadmap could disconnect European meat consumption from South American deforestation  The Grocer Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2tI2HiE Why a soy … Continue reading →

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« Eles querem encontrar OURO – foi sua ganância que matou a maioria dos nossos anciãos há muito tempo! Homens *brancos com dinheiro querem mais. Eles querem destruir mais. É a tradição deles – eles não têm limites! »

Posted on October 23, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image8.png Casa comunal Yanomami na floresta, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela – foto: Barbara Crane Navarro « No passado, não tínhamos que falar sobre a floresta com raiva porque não conhecíamos todos esses brancos devoradores…

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Pensamentos Internacionalistas: Thomas More e a Utopia — Internacional da Amazônia

Posted on October 23, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Vinicius Pontes – Acadêmico do 4° semestre de Relações Internacionais da UNAMA Thomas More foi um embaixador que nasceu na cidade de Londres, na Inglaterra, durante o ano de 1478. O autor ficou conhecido por ter escrito a obra “A … Continue reading →

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“O Agro não é pop, o agro mata”: estudo aponta que a fome é resultado do agronegócio — Antropofagista

Posted on October 23, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Para pesquisadores, o setor não só não mata a fome, como fomenta a desigualdade que a cria Dificilmente alguém não conhece as imagens coloridas e modernas da campanha “Agro é pop”, transmitidas na rede Globo desde 2016 e que passam … Continue reading →

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« Ils veulent trouver de l’OR – C’est leur avidité qui a fait mourir la plupart de nos aînés il y a longtemps! Les hommes *blancs qui ont de l’argent en veulent plus. Ils veulent en détruire plus. C’est leur tradition – ils n’ont aucune limite ! »

Posted on October 22, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/aa-4-shabono_o.jpg Yanomami shabono – maison communale, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuelaphoto – Barbara Crane Navarro « Dans le passé, nous n’étions pas obligés de parler de la forêt avec colère parce que nous ne connaissions…

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Illegal gold mining on Brazil indigenous land up 500 % in a decade – The Nation —

Posted on October 22, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Illegal gold mining on Brazil indigenous land up 500 % in decade – The Nation https://ift.tt/2WGcSCI Illegal mining on Brazil indigenous land up 500pc in decade  The Nation Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2tI2HiE Illegal mining on Brazil indigenous land up … Continue reading →

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Ils font danser leurs puissants esprits pour la protéger 🦉 — JEREMIKARUS

Posted on October 22, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« A única razão pela qual a floresta ainda não está se transformando no caos é que alguns grandes xamãs ainda estão fazendo seus espíritos poderosos dançarem para protegê-la » — Barbara Crane Navarro — Tiny Life «La seule raison pour laquelle la … Continue reading →

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« They want to find GOLD – Their avidity was what made most of our elders die long ago! *White men who have money, want more. They want to destroy more. That’s their tradition – they’ve got no limit! »

Posted on October 21, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/aa-3-small-shabono.jpg Yanomami shabono – communal house, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela?photo – Barbara Crane Navarro « In the past,? we were not forced to talk about the forest with anger because we did not know…

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HAS GAIA GOT ALZHEIMER’S? ARE WE IT? #humanity #adaptation #climatecatastrophe — Lordan’s Lit

Posted on October 21, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Life began on Earth about 3.4 billion years ago. That’s older than we can really take in. We can describe this length of time, we can write it out & tote it up, but we can’t really comprehend it. This … Continue reading →

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You Can’t Drink The Oil…When The Water is All Gone — STOP LINE 3! SM(Art) Bombs Comics

Posted on October 21, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Please visit https://www.stopline3.org/ to learn more facts and figures about Line 3! The text from the comic below- sorry for the all caps… IN JUNE 2021, DURING A RECORD-BREAKING HEATWAVE WITH MUCH OF THE WEST AND UPPER MID WESTERN US … Continue reading →

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