Yanaguana volume 1, issue 2 spring/summer 2026 a literary journal from San Antonio, Texas

Emily Rankin

short haired, smiling, button stud earrings, green/hazel eyes, wearing amber-yellow close neck sweater
“These works—Dawn, Cumulonimbus, Rainbow—make up a part of an ongoing series, ‘Fluid,’ which seeks to capture the ways in which a fluid moment in time might be fixed in the mind. I’m interested in the way the momentary motion of liquid paint can be captured and pinned to canvas.”
abstract swirls and blobs of blue, purple, and black with occasional teal and yellow spots of color

Dawn

abstract swirls of reddish, whitish, yellowish, and greenish color

Cumulonimbus

swirls and pockets of crimson, red, orange, with streaks of various shades of blue

Rainbow

About the Artist

Emily Rankin was born in Riverside, California and attended university in Texas, where she received a BFA in 2011. Her body of work deals with the tangles of human emotion and understanding, the intuitive messages of dreaming and subconscious exploration. Her work has appeared in such publications as Gasher, WildRoofJournal, Raw Art Review, Metonym, Meat for Tea, Landlocked, Zoetic Press, Hey I’m Alive Magazine, and Rattle. She is currently based in New Mexico.

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