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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.

Renuevan convenio para conservación de vaquita marina en Alto Golfo de California —

Posted on August 11, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Las secretarías de Medio Ambiente, Marina y Agricultura informaron que suscribieron un convenio para trabajar en forma coordinada con organizaciones no gubernamentales para mantener el polígono de prohibición de pesca en el Alto Golfo de California libre de redes agalleras … Continue reading →

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Supply chain laws to end deforestation must back Indigenous rights – Thomson Reuters Foundation —

Posted on August 11, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Supply chain laws to end deforestation must back Indigenous rights – Thomson Reuters Foundation https://ift.tt/3AjYs9A Supply chain laws to end deforestation must back Indigenous rights  Thomson Reuters Foundation Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2tI2HiE Supply chain laws to end deforestation must … Continue reading →

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Nous mourons tous pour le luxe (littéralement)! ? Partie 1 – les origines de Covid-19 en Europe

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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Après des décennies de dénonciation de l’industrie frivole des «montres, bijoux et accessoires» en or, responsable de la destruction des forêts et de la dégradation de la vie des peuples autochtones, aggravée par la…

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Nous mourons tous pour le luxe (littéralement)! ? Partie 2 – Les origines de Covid-19 en Chine

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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La pandémie de Covid-19 nous fait-elle tous devenir des «Fashion Victims», me suis-je demandé après avoir lu «Les élevages de visons sont-ils la source de Covid en Europe?» fin décembre. Un article de Yann…

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EU: European Commission introduces mandatory SARS-CoV-2 screening in all European mink fur farms. — World Animals Voice

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

WAV Comment – yes, we still have never heard back from the Danish murdered regarding the mass slaughter of minks for fur:   England: WAV Writes to the Danish Ambassador In London re Denmark’s Mass Mink Murders. – World Animals … Continue reading →

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Denmark: year of the Zombie-Minks — World Animals Voice

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Millions of minks have been killed in Denmark due to a mutation in the coronavirus. Now the animal carcasses are causing a lot of trouble for the authorities. Millions of furry animals hurriedly buried break out of their graves: What … Continue reading →

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How to Address the Emergence and Spread of Zoonotic Diseases — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Posted on August 9, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Human Wrongs Watch New international expert panel to address the emergence and spread of zoonotic diseases Pixabay / 20 May 2021 Geneva/Paris/Rome/Nairobi, 20 May 2021 (UNEP)* – International organizations have come together to launch a new One Health High-Level Expert … Continue reading →

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How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses — Palm Oil Detectives

Posted on August 9, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Terry Sunderland, University of British Columbia As the global population has doubled to 7.8 billion in about 50 years, industrial agriculture has increased the output from fields and farms to feed humanity. One of the negative outcomes of this transformation … Continue reading →

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We Are All Dying for Luxury (Literally) ! ? Part 1 – the origins of Covid-19 in Europe

Posted on August 9, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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After decades of denouncing the frivolous gold “watch, jewelry and accessories” industry that’s responsible for the destruction of forests and the degradation of the lives of indigenous peoples, now aggravated by the propagation of…

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We Are All Dying for Luxury (Literally) ! ? Part 2 – the origins of Covid-19 in China

Posted on August 9, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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Is the Covid-19 pandemic causing us all to become “Fashion Victims”, I wondered after reading “Are mink farms the source of Covid in Europe ?” at the end of December. A follow-up article by…

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