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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.

« Não queremos arrancar o ouro e os minerais da terra ou fazer com que suas emanações epidêmicas caiam sobre nós. Queremos apenas que o céu esteja claro para que possamos ver as estrelas ao cair da noite. »

Posted on April 27, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/vacance-2008-5-019-1.jpg Objetos pessoais Yanomami pendurados sob o telhado da casa comunal:penas de peru selvagem para rêmiges de flechas e cabaça «?Nós, povos da floresta, temos prazer em evocar homens generosos. É por isso que…

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Assista a “Abril: o mês da resistência indígena” no YouTube — Mágica Mistura✨

Posted on April 27, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Continuando nossa saga neste mês de abril ( e em todos os meses do ano), Catraca Livre trás uma abordagem bem interessante e verdadeira para ajudar nesta nossa luta de todos os dias. imagens do Pinterest Assista a “Abril: o mês … Continue reading →

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« Nous ne voulons pas arracher l’or et les minéraux de la terre ni faire retomber sur nous leurs fumées épidémiques. Nous voulons juste que le ciel soit clair pour que nous puissions voir les étoiles à la tombée de la nuit. »

Posted on April 26, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/aa-shabono-view-w-hammock-1.jpeg Effets personnels Yanomami suspendus sous le toit de la maison communale: tabac du jardin commun suspendu pour sécher «Nous, gens de la forêt, n’avons de plaisir qu’à évoquer des hommes généreux. C’est pourquoi…

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« We do not want to tear gold and minerals out of the earth nor make their epidemic fumes fall back on us. We just want the sky to be clear so that we can see the stars when night falls. »

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/20-1-1.jpeg Yanomami belongings hanging under the roof of the communal house: woven basket dyed with Achiote «?We people of the forest only have pleasure in the evocation of generous men. This is why we…

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Assista a “STF PODE INVESTIGAR BOLSONARO POR GENOCÍDIO” no YouTube — Mágica Mistura✨

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Este desgoverno assassino continua escondendo dados sobre a pandemia… Isso terá um fim?! Os indígenas, é claro, são tratados com desrespeito e total descaso,como vocês podem comprovar nesta matéria do Meteoro Brasil. 12 more words Assista a “STF PODE INVESTIGAR BOLSONARO … Continue reading →

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Agro-Industry Surrounds Xingu Indigenous Territory — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Human Wrongs Watch By Flávia Milhorance* Impacts of grain crop cultivation spill into Brazil’s oldest indigenous reserve as farmers work with tribes to restore degraded land The peoples of the Xingu say agricultural activity beyond the borders of their territory … Continue reading →

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Mining industry takes advantage of pandemic to try to licence 13 projects at once in Minas Gerais, Brazil —

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Apr 6, 2021 | News On the attempt to approve 13 licencing projects at once at COPAM-MG  By Gabriela Sarmet, co-founder of the Coletivo Decolonial, a researcher on socio-environmental conflicts in Latin America and an individual associate member of London Mining Network Artwork created … Continue reading →

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Assista a “BOLSONARO MENTE NA CARA DE LÍDERES MUNDIAIS” no YouTube — Mágica Mistura✨

Posted on April 24, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Mentiroso como sempre…cara de pau como poucos… Atrás dele um punhado de fanáticos… até aí, normal para os padrões deles. Mas e a Amazônia?!E os índios?!E o ecossistema?!E o futuro do planeta?! 31 more words Assista a “BOLSONARO MENTE NA CARA … Continue reading →

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« L’unico motivo per cui la foresta non si sta ancora trasformando in caos è che alcuni grandi sciamani fanno ancora danzare i loro potenti spiriti per proteggerla. »

Posted on April 24, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Gli spiriti xapiri dello sciamano fracassano furiosamente gli aerei dei miniere d’oro nella foresta. Questo è vero! Ciò accadde quando un grande sciamano morì di malaria trasmessa dai minatori. Diversi aerei minerari si schiantarono contro le cime degli alberi in quel … Continue reading →

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Assista a “Governo de Bolsonaro e Salles derruba e queima florestas e vai à Cúpula do Clima mendigar dinheiro” no YouTube — Mágica Mistura✨

Posted on April 24, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

É não ter senso de ridículo mesmo …e que ironia! Os “senhores” que mais tripudiam e destroem o que nos resta de florestas correndo como cães em busca de migalhas dos países ricos…(me perdoem os cães). 16 more words Assista a … Continue reading →

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