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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.

Finding Gold Mining Hotspots in Peru — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Researchers have created a satellite-based tool to help officials identify new activity. Source: Finding Gold Mining Hotspots in Peru Finding Gold Mining Hotspots in Peru — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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« La Valeur de l’Or qu’ils convoitent tant – Nos vrais biens sont les choses de la forêt: ses eaux, ses poissons, son gibier, ses arbres et ses fruits. Pas de marchandise! »

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/aa-2-meromi.jpg Fille Yanomami donnant de la banane mâchée à son perroquet, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela – photo: Barbara Crane Navarro « Lorsqu’un être humain meurt, son fantôme ne transporte aucun de ses biens sur…

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Making Mind Maps in the Amazon — Relational Thinking

In June 2019, researchers from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, the Universidad de la Amazonía and the University of Oxford met with rural stakeholders in the Colombian Amazon. Their goal was to capture how people understand the causes and impacts … Continue reading →

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Lenguas indígenas al Censo 2022 | Todas las voces — Noticias La Insuperable

El Estado sigue negando a los pueblos originarios en las estadísticas. La variable étnica y la dimensión lingüística no están incorporadas en los sistemas de información de los ministerios. Una iniciativa busca un millón de firmas para que «la pregunta … Continue reading →

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« The Value of the Gold they covet so much – Our real goods are the things of the forest: its waters, fish, game, trees and fruit. Not merchandise! »

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/aa-namowe-canoe-1.jpg Yanomami boy with pet monkey, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela?photo – Barbara Crane Navar «?When a human being dies, his ghost does not carry any of his goods onto the sky’s back, even if…

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Terras indígenas Yanomami, Alto Rio Negro e Mundurukú são as mais pressionadas pelo desmatamento na Amazônia — Ecoamazônia

Dados são do monitoramento trimestral Ameaça e Pressão do Imazon, publicado nesta terça-feira (08), que analisou os meses de fevereiro a abril A última análise do desmatamento dentro das áreas protegidas da Amazônia feita pelo Imazon mostrou que, entre fevereiro … Continue reading →

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«Caminamos porque no queremos morir por el virus y tampoco por la contaminación» — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

Dos hechos tan dolorosos como arrasadores las movilizaron en geografías distantes del país. En el norte, una niña wichi había sido violada y asesinada; en el sur, los incendios forestales se tragaron bosques enteros en pocos días. 3,703 more words «Caminamos … Continue reading →

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« Il Fumo Dorato delle Epidemie – I minatori d’oro sono diventati numerosi nella nostra foresta, distruggendo le sorgenti del fiume e uccidendoci con le loro malattie »

« Yanomami: trasformazione sciamanica » – Barbara Crane Navarro « Oggi non sono rimasti molti grandi sciamani nella nostra foresta. Il fumo dorato delle epidemie l’ha quasi completamente svuotata.  I nostri genitori e nonni non si fidavano dei bianchi e hanno sempre … Continue reading →

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Uma tempestade perfeita para a Amazônia — Mágica Mistura✨

Por Ima Vieira A expressão “tempestade perfeita” (do inglês, perfect storm) se refere à situação na qual um evento, em geral não favorável, é drasticamente agravado por uma combinação de circunstâncias, transformando-se em um desastre. Na Amazônia, o aumento descontrolado do desmatamento e das queimadas, … Continue reading →

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Brasileiros não confiam no governo federal para proteger a Amazônia — Ecoamazônia

A maioria dos brasileiros acha que as ações de combate às queimadas na Amazônia devem partir do governo federal e são essenciais para evitar novos recordes este ano. Ao mesmo tempo, o nível de confiança no mesmo governo para tomar … Continue reading →

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