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Homage or Rip-off

August 23, 2016 By John Rankine Leave a Comment

Homage or Rip-off

Homage or Rip-Off? I was 17 when I first saw John Waters’ now classic 1972 cult film Pink Flamingos at our local late-night movie house. It made quite an impression on this teen from the suburbs of Toronto still struggling with his gay identity. Last month, I took a detail from the movie poster and […]

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Rubbing Elbo’s

April 25, 2016 By John Rankine Leave a Comment

Rubbing Elbo’s

I’ve had a secret crush on Max Elbo (please don’t tell his wife, Selena) ever since I saw a pointillism pen and ink he had done of my not-so secret crush John Lennon. Max is a creative genius and I’ve been fortunate to formally photograph him, twice. Max was part of the 2004 series where […]

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On My Morning Walk

April 18, 2016 By John Rankine Leave a Comment

On My Morning Walk

It’s because of social media that my next art installation is taking flight. It came from the positive, encouraging comments and “Likes” posted to Facebook and Instagram on a series of daily photographs taken over a year with my then-new iPhone 6. What started as a morning ritual exercise, walking my three dogs with phone […]

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Welcome Melonheads

April 11, 2016 By John Rankine Leave a Comment

Welcome Melonheads

It was a tough decision turning The Space, which has held so many great events in its more than 10 years, over to the Melonlight Dance kids, who officially take the reins tonight with their Grand Opening Open House. The upstairs renovation of the former Odd Fellows hall, Assembly of God Sunday school and Bell […]

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Killing The Messenger

March 22, 2016 By John Rankine Leave a Comment

Killing The Messenger

I heard through the grapevine that several businesses pulled their advertising from the Eureka Springs Independent and its Fun Guide because they didn’t like Bill King’s Guestatorial in the March 2 issue of the Independent that simply addressed King’s questions and concerns regarding the proposed Community Center where the former high school now stands. I […]

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Unannounced

February 21, 2016 By John Rankine Leave a Comment

Unannounced

Working in my studio, my three dogs alerted me there was someone or something outside. Standing outside my front door was a young man who asked me if I was interested in good food. His friend and I assume business partner sat parked in our driveway while the former told me about his fresh meat […]

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M is The Word

February 5, 2016 By John Rankine 1 Comment

M is The Word

Last summer we lost a member of our community whose suicide and bizarre past and story left us all stunned – a story shrouded in mystery with questions we will never find answers to or understand. Two months before she died, M arrived at my studio with a present– an antique, wooden, prosthetic leg. The […]

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Rankine and Russell at Eureka Fine Art

December 7, 2015 By John Rankine Leave a Comment

Rankine and Russell at Eureka Fine Art

  Local artist and photographer John Rankine has officially become a new member of the Eureka Fine Art Gallery co-op and will be the gallery’s featured artist during December’s Eureka Springs Second Saturday Gallery Stroll. Rankine will debut eight new photographs from his “On My Morning Walk” series. The photographs, all shot with the iPhone […]

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The Head And The Heart

October 28, 2015 By John Rankine Leave a Comment

The Head And The Heart

I have come to accept the synchronicity that plays a major part in my life and in my art – those beyond coincidental moments that make no rational sense but resonate within, often in profound ways. Thanks to an English teacher who turned me on to Carl Jung and his book “Man And His Symbols,” […]

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Seeking Nourishment

October 8, 2015 By John Rankine Leave a Comment

Seeking Nourishment

I was asked to participate in this year’s Hungry Bowl event that will benefit our local food banks, and was given a fired but unglazed bowl thrown by the ceramic duo known as “Sheryodi,” My task was to take that bowl and decorate it either with glaze or paint. This year the people behind our […]

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