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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.

« Merchandise Love – The Value the *white people give the Gold they covet so much »

Posted on June 5, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/aaa1shaman.jpg photo: Yanomami: shamanic transformation – Barbara Crane Navarro « Today there are not many great shamans left in our forest. The gold smoke of epidemics nearly completely emptied it. Our fathers and our grandfathers…

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UW researchers investigate gold mining-related deforestation in the Amazon – University of Wisconsin-Madison —

Posted on June 5, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

UW researchers investigate mining-related deforestation in the Amazon – University of Wisconsin-Madison https://ift.tt/3pcANUe UW researchers investigate mining-related deforestation in the Amazon  University of Wisconsin-Madison Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2Pik6Fi UW researchers investigate mining-related deforestation in the Amazon – University of … Continue reading →

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O garimpo ilegal de ouro ameaça os povos indígenas —

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Povos indígenas do Brasil estão à mercê de um número crescente de garimpeiros ilegais de ouro Caminho da devastação: prospecção ilegal de ouro no território Yanomami (Roraima, 17 de abril de 2016) Por Norbert Suchanek, Rio de Janeiro Enquanto dezenas … Continue reading →

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Amazônia: Questões ambientais contemporâneas — Internacional da Amazônia

Posted on June 5, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Um jaguar descansando sob um arbusto. Amazônia: Questões ambientais contemporâneas — Internacional da Amazônia Luíza Veiga – Graduada em Relações Internacionais A região amazônica tem sofrido há décadas com diversas questões ligadas à sua exploração indevida. Queimadas, desmatamento e garimpos … Continue reading →

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« L’ORO non è altro che polvere scintillante nel fango, ma i bianchi possono uccidere per questo! … Niente è abbastanza forte per ripristinare il valore della foresta malata. Nessuna merce può comprare tutti gli esseri umani divorati dai fumi epidemici. »

Posted on June 4, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/aaa5.jpg foto: Yanomami: trasformazione sciamanica – Barbara Crane Navarro « I bianchi diffondono i loro fumi epidemici in tutta la foresta … strappando oro e altri minerali dal terreno. Non vogliono rinunciare alla loro…

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AFINAL DE CONTAS: POR QUE AS FLORESTAS SÃO TÃO IMPORTANTES? — ÁGUA, VIDA & CIA – Fernando José de Sousa

Posted on June 4, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Na atual sequência de postagens temos falado bastante sobre os problemas ambientais decorrentes do aquecimento global, mais especificamente sobre os riscos de desaparecimento das geleiras de altitude em montanhas de todo o mundo. Essas geleiras formam nascentes de importantes rios. … Continue reading →

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In Peru, officials play a losing game of whack-a-mole with illegal miners – Mongabay.com —

Posted on June 4, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

In Peru, officials play a losing game of whack-a-mole with illegal miners – Mongabay.com https://ift.tt/3psyPPX In Peru, officials play a losing game of whack-a-mole with illegal miners  Mongabay.com Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2Pik6Fi In Peru, officials play a losing game … Continue reading →

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« El ORO no es más que polvo brillante en el barro, ¡pero los blancos pueden matar por él! … Nada es lo suficientemente fuerte como para restaurar el valor del bosque enfermo. Ninguna mercancía puede comprar a todos los seres humanos devorados por los humos epidémicos. »

Posted on June 3, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/aaa4-epena-18.jpg foto: Yanomami: transformación chamánica – Barbara Crane Navarro « Los blancos esparcen sus humos epidémicos por todo el bosque … arrancando oro y otros minerales de la tierra. No quieren abandonan su frenesí…

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Environmental and sociocultural disaster south of the Orinoco River due to illegal gold mining and irregular groups — The Free

Posted on June 3, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

by at ecopoliticavenezuela.org translation TheFreeOnline. May 28, 2021 With the deepening of the economic crisis in Venezuela, there has been a rampant race, by the official, economic and criminal groups from Colombia and Brazil to loot the mineral resources in … Continue reading →

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Tribunal Ambiental da a conocer inédito acuerdo de conciliación entre el CDE, comunidades indígenas y Minera Escondida — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

Posted on June 3, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Esto se da en el marco de la demanda de reparación por daño ambiental al Salar de Punta Negra -una cuenca altoandina ubicada en Antofagasta- interpuesta en contra de la compañía minera. 02/06/2021 | Por A. González, Emol 12 Salar … Continue reading →

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