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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.

« La tierra no es del hombre, el hombre pertenece a la tierra. El hombre no ha tejido la telaraña de la vida, es solo un hilo. Todo lo que hace con la red de la vida, él se hace esto a sí mismo. »

Posted on October 6, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

«¿Les está enseñando a sus hijos lo que nosotros les enseñamos a nuestros hijos? ¿Que la tierra es nuestra madre? Lo que le pasa a la tierra le pasa a todos los hijos de la tierra. Sabemos que la tierra … Continue reading →

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Amazon rainforest reaching tipping point, researchers say – BBC News — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Posted on October 6, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Source: Amazon rainforest reaching tipping point, researchers say – BBC News Amazon rainforest reaching tipping point, researchers say – BBC News — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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«A terra não é do homem, o homem é da terra. O homem não teceu a teia da vida, ele é apenas um fio. O que quer que ele faça com a teia da vida, ele faz isso consigo mesmo.» 

Posted on October 5, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Você está ensinando a seus filhos o que ensinamos a nossos filhos? Que a terra é nossa mãe? O que acontece com a terra acontece com todos os filhos da terra. Sabemos que a terra não pertence ao homem, o … Continue reading →

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IPCC report: Effects of climate crisis will deepen in Latin America! – Diálogo Chino

Posted on October 5, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

IPCC report: Effects of climate crisis will deepen in Latin America – Diálogo Chino https://ift.tt/B3aGxjQ IPCC report: Effects of climate crisis will deepen in Latin America  Diálogo Chino Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/uexjyAX IPCC report: Effects of climate crisis will … Continue reading →

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«La Terre n’appartient pas à l’homme, l’homme appartient à la Terre. L’homme n’a pas tissé la toile de la vie, il n’en est qu’un fil. Quoi qu’il fasse à la toile de la vie, il le fait à lui-même.»

Posted on October 4, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Enseignez-vous à vos enfants ce que nous avons enseigné à nos enfants ? Que la terre est notre mère ? Ce qui arrive à la terre arrive à tous les fils de la terre. Nous le savons, la terre n’appartient pas … Continue reading →

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Gold used in Italian wedding rings linked to Amazon deforestation – Gold used in EVERYTHING is linked to Amazon deforestation and the degradation of Indigenous lives!

Posted on October 4, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Gold used in Italian wedding rings linked to Amazon deforestation – TDPel Media https://ift.tt/oqz2jt9 Gold used in Italian wedding rings linked to Amazon deforestation  TDPel Media Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/qC5K7NB Gold used in Italian wedding rings linked to Amazon … Continue reading →

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« The Earth does not belong to Man, Man belongs to the Earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. »

Posted on October 3, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

 « Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know – the earth does not belong to man, man … Continue reading →

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From Wall Street to the Amazon Rainforest: Big capital funds gold mining driven deforestation! — Mongabay.com

Posted on October 3, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

From Wall Street to the Amazon: Big capital funds mining-driven deforestation – Mongabay.com https://ift.tt/iv9L3gq From Wall Street to the Amazon: Big capital funds mining-driven deforestation  Mongabay.com Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2ZwMaEd From Wall Street to the Amazon: Big capital funds … Continue reading →

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«Dimentichiamo e ci consideriamo superiori. Ma dopo tutto, siamo solo una parte della creazione.» – Abbiamo tutti bisogno di rivedere il nostro rapporto con la natura e rifocalizzare la nostra associazione con il consumismo!

Posted on October 2, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Non vedo delega per tutte e quattro le gambe. Non vedo un posto per le aquile. Dimentichiamo e ci consideriamo superiori. Ma dopo tutto, siamo solo una parte della creazione. E dobbiamo tenerne conto per capire a che punto siamo. … Continue reading →

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Luxury wood market driving extinction of rare ipê trees, report warns – Please STOP buying ALL products from deforestation!

Posted on October 2, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Luxury wood market driving extinction of rare ipê trees, report warns – Mongabay.com https://ift.tt/Z2lTg95 Luxury wood market driving extinction of rare ipê trees, report warns  Mongabay.com Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/qC5K7NB Luxury wood market driving extinction of rare ipê trees, … Continue reading →

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