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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.

¿Qué consideras « ofensivo »? – actualizado

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/aa-sp-1-peinture-3-graces-2.jpeg Mujeres Yanomami con pintura achiote, Amazonas, Venezuela – foto recortada para evitar la censura «Los mineros de oro cavan como cerdos salvajes por todas partes. Los ríos del bosque pronto no serán más…

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Facebook ganhou ao menos US $9,5 milhões para promover petróleo e gás em 2020 — « ofensivo » ? !

Pico de anúncios ocorreu após Biden apresentar plano trilionário para renováveis O Facebook ganhou US$ 9,6 milhões em 2020 para promover anúncios pró-combustível fóssil nos EUA, afirma um estudo publicado nesta quinta-feira (5/8). Cerca de 25 mil anúncios destinados a … Continue reading →

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Climate Explained: what would happen if we cut down the Amazon rainforest? — Palm Oil Detectives

Gustavo Frazao Sebastian Leuzinger, Auckland University of Technology What would happen if we cut down the entire Amazon rainforest? Could it be replaced by an equal amount of reforestation elsewhere? Removing the entire Amazon rainforest would have myriad consequences, with … Continue reading →

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O que você considera « ofensivo »? – atualizado

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/aa-po-fb-the-hunter-wife-and-arrows.jpeg Yanomami caçador e esposa com pintura facial Achiote, Amazonas, Venezuela – reformulado para evitar censura «?Os garimpeiros cavam em todos os lugares como porcos selvagens. Os rios da floresta logo serão nada mais…

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Explainer: What is a tipping point, and why should we care? — Palm Oil Detectives

Our ability to understand and act thoughtfully around this single concept could determine the fate of life on Earth. What is a tipping point, and why should we care?: Ecosystems are subject to disturbances and major shifts. Agricultural run off … Continue reading →

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Political ecology in the courtroom — POLLEN

Exploring connections between conservation litigation and political ecology Political ecology in the courtroom — POLLEN

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Que considérez-vous comme «offensant»? – actualisé

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/aa-fr-face-paint-1.jpeg Femme Yanomami peignant sa fille avec Achiote, Amazonas, Venezuela – re-cadrée pour éviter la censure «Les mineurs d’or creusent partout comme des cochons sauvages. Les rivières de la forêt ne seront bientôt plus…

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Os pulmões doentes da Amazônia — Mágica Mistura✨

Meados de julho de 2021. Durante o segundo ano da pandemia de COVID-19, o calor catastrófico e o inferno de fogo no oeste dos Estados Unidos e Canadá, bem como as inundações do século na Alemanha e na Bélgica, competem … Continue reading →

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Official data confirms #Amazon deforestation still soaring and new footage captures the horror — Western Globe News

Official data published today by the Brazilian Space Research Institute (INPE), detected deforestation alerts across an area of the Amazon rainforest over five and a half times the size of London in the last 12 months. 8,712km2 (871,200 hectares) of … Continue reading →

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What do YOU consider « offensive »? – updated

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«? The gold miners dig everywhere like wild pigs. The forest’s rivers will soon be no more than miry backwaters, full of mud, motor oil, and trash.? They also wash their gold powder in…

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