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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.

The Amazon Rainforest Released 20% More Carbon Than It Absorbed in Last 10 Years: Study – The Swaddle —

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

The Amazon Rainforest Released 20% More Carbon Than It Absorbed in Last 10 Years: Study – The Swaddle https://ift.tt/3aXuuOw The Amazon Rainforest Released 20% More Carbon Than It Absorbed in Last 10 Years: Study  The Swaddle Superforest via “deforestation” – Google … Continue reading →

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« ¡Estos extranjeros corrieron al bosque para extraer oro! »

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

« Somos diferentes. ¡Nunca pensamos en enviar a nuestra gente a la tierra de los blancos para destruir todo sin decir una palabra! Los blancos pueden pensar que son muy inteligentes, pero sus mentes están concentradas en las cosas malas que … Continue reading →

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Felling Forests, Featured Frankly — Organikos

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

The remnants of an old-growth forest in northern Sweden. Forest biologist Sebastian Kirppu counted over 100 trees more than 150 years old in these piles. Photograph: Marcus Westberg The Guardian features this gallery of photos with commentary, by Marcus Westberg, … Continue reading →

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New Report Links 2020’s Record-Breaking Fires in Brazil’s Pantanal Wetlands to World’s Biggest Meat Processor — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

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

Image from Greenpeace International. “Fire blazes the way for industrial meat expansion across South America. In the face of the global Covid-19 pandemic and the biodiversity and climate crises, the continued deliberate use of fire within the sector is an … Continue reading →

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« Esses estrangeiros correram para a floresta para extrair ouro! »

Posted on May 2, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Nós somos diferentes. Nunca pensamos em enviar nosso povo para a terra dos branca para destruir tudo sem dizer uma palavra! Os brancos podem se achar muito inteligentes, mas suas mentes se fixam nas coisas ruins que sempre cobiçam. É … Continue reading →

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Assista a “GREG NEWS | MILÍCIAS AMAZÔNICAS” no YouTube — Mágica Mistura✨

Posted on May 2, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Sim, amigos!!!! No país da milícia…a Amazônia não poderia ficar de fora! Acompanhem o Greg News e fiquem, além de extremamente chocados e enojados…com um pouco mais de ranço “daquele senhor”… imagens do Pinterest Assista a “GREG NEWS | MILÍCIAS AMAZÔNICAS” … Continue reading →

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Interview with José DeCoux – founder of Reserva Los Cedros, Ecuador — Save the Rainforest from mining

Posted on May 2, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Ecuador is being ravaged by highly contagious variants of COVID and under total lockdown every weekend. That might have explained why Jose was truggling to join our Zoom call. Communications to Los Cedros, nestled in a remote corner of NW … Continue reading →

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There aren’t enough trees in the world to offset society’s carbon emissions – and there never will be — msamba

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Bonnie Waring Senior Lecturer, Grantham Institute – Climate Change and Environment, Imperial College London Even if they can’t save us from climate change, society still depends on forests.   One morning in 2009, I sat on a creaky bus winding … Continue reading →

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Bolsonaro slashes Brazil’s environment budget, day after climate talks pledge | Brazil | The Guardian — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Speaking on Thursday to the summit organised by US President Joe Biden, Bolsonaro pledged to double the budget for environmental enforcement and end illegal deforestation by 2030. Less than 24 hours later, Bolsonaro signed off on the 2021 federal budget that included 2bn … Continue reading →

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We can’t lose sight of no-deforestation supply chain! — Tiny Life

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Macawa in the Amazon Rainforest, state of Acre, Brazil. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/04/we-can-t-lose-sight-of-no-deforestation-supply-chain-goals-here-s-why/ We can’t lose sight of no-deforestation supply chain! — Tiny Life

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