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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.

Native Americans and the Movies – Lara Trace Hentz

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Hola Survival, ¿de qué lado estás? – ¿Del lado de los pueblos Indígenas o de la industria del oro? – ¡Me gustaría señalar que el #5 de su “plan de seis puntos” SÓLO ayuda a la industria del oro!

Compañía canadiense Guyana Goldfields Inc. – ¡La minería de oro legal está destruyendo bosques y contaminando fuentes de agua en todo el mundo! Guyana Goldfields ha estado desarrollando la mina Aurora en Guyana desde 1996. Es una de las principales … Continue reading →

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Shocked? Surprised? No. – Lara Trace Hentz

ANCIENT Petrogylphs | Land Theft Boy Stumbles Across Weird Cave Markings – Archaeologists Investigate And Can’t Believe Their Eyes It’s easy to forget that the world didn’t begin with books, museums and the Internet. Instead we spoke to each other … Continue reading →

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Ei, Survival, de que lado você está? – Do lado dos povos indígenas ou da indústria do ouro? – Gostaria de salientar que o nº 5 do seu “plano de seis pontos” APENAS ajuda a indústria do ouro!

Empresa canadense Guiana Goldfields Inc. – A mineração legal de ouro está destruindo florestas e contaminando fontes de água em todo o mundo! Guiana Goldfields vem desenvolvendo a mina Aurora na Guiana desde 1996. É uma das principais minas de … Continue reading →

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Note de lecture : “Ethnographies des mondes à venir” (Philippe Descola & Alessandro Pignocchi) — Charybde 27 : le Blog

Un dialogue d’une extraordinaire vitalité entre le penseur de l’anthropologie de la nature et le chercheur aquarelliste des luttes sociales et écologiques contemporaines : par l’acuité de l’échange et aussi par le soulignement narquois et poétique jailli des dessins, un … Continue reading →

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Hé, Survival, de quel côté es-tu ? – Du côté des peuples autochtones ou de l’industrie de l’or ? – J’aimerais souligner que le n° 5 de votre “plan en six points” aide UNIQUEMENT l’industrie de l’or !

Barrick Gold Corporation : L’extraction légale de l’or détruit les forêts et contamine les sources d’eau dans le monde ! Une fosse à ciel ouvert à la mine d’or Veladero de Barrick Gold Corp. dans la province argentine de San Juan. La … Continue reading →

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Changing the Way We See Native Americans – 500 NATIONS — Lara Trace Hentz

Changing the Way We See Native Americans – 500 NATIONS | 500 NATIONS.   By Lara/Trace This talk was given at a TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. In 2013 Matika Wilbur (story/project link) took on a project … Continue reading →

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Hey, Survival, Which side are you on? – The side of Indigenous Peoples or the Gold Industry? – I’d like to point out that #5 of your “Six Point Plan” helps ONLY the Gold Industry!

Barrick Gold Corporation: Legal gold mining destroys forests and contaminates water sources globally! An open pit at Barrick Gold Corp.’s Veladero gold mine in Argentina’s San Juan province. The mine has estimated reserves of 10 million oz of gold. – … Continue reading →

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My Favorite Little Film! – Sometimes we miss the most beautiful moments – DON’T MISS THIS one! A magical 38-second film – “The Yanomami boy’s surprise friend in the jungle”!

Please help protect the forests, rivers, wildlife and the lives of the Yanomami and other Indigenous peoples by boycotting ALL products from deforestation; gold, palm oil, exotic wood, soy, beef, etc. Here’s the 38-second film of the Yanomami boy in … Continue reading →

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« Yanomami – lottando per l’esistenza sulla nostra terra sacra! »

« Esattamente 8 anni fa, il popolo Yanomami cominciò a sperimentare la sofferenza, a causa della negligenza dello Stato brasiliano che avrebbe dovuto proteggerci, ma ci ha lasciato alla mercé degli invasori e della mancanza di assistenza. Nel periodo dal 2019 … Continue reading →

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