Yanaguana volume 1, issue 2 spring/summer 2026 a literary journal from San Antonio, Texas
Emily Rankin
“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.”
Dawn
Cumulonimbus
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.