Within Without began as a practice.
A group of people gathering, meditatively, and creatively to sit with a theme and see what emerged from inside it. To make something. To be together in the making.
The first edition was born from loss. After the death of Bill Rieflin, a dear friend, we gathered his writings from the last years of his life and held them in print. The journal became a way of keeping him present, and of finding, in grief, something that could be shared.
That first act of making together became the shape of everything that followed.
Each edition of Within Without takes a single theme.
Artists, writers, and makers are invited to respond, not to illustrate the theme from the outside, but to embody it. To find what it holds within their own practice, their own life, their own body of work. The result is not an anthology or a magazine. It is something closer to a collective interior, a gathering of inner worlds made visible.
There is a within, and there is a without. The publication lives in the space between them.
The first edition began with Bill Rieflin, his words, his presence, the space he left. It set the tone for everything Within Without has become: intimate, made with care, rooted in real experience.
The second edition opened the practice to a wider circle. Artists from across disciplines and geographies were invited to respond to Legacy of Love, and what came back was extraordinary in its range and depth.
Contributors: Hatsue Andrews, Rohan Ayinde, Lia von Buddenbrock & Fabian Blaschke, Joseph Tokumasu Field, Charlotte Gosch, Jay Harper, Tony Levin, Mags McKean, Lara Monro, Elsa Muñoz, Kasia Murfet, Studio other types, Monika Radojevic, Angela Reimer, Nouel Riel, Samira Saidi, David Singleton, Iona Singleton, Julia Zenteno
Within Without continues.
Each edition is made slowly, with a small group of contributors who are genuinely moved by the theme. If you are an artist, writer, or maker and feel drawn to this kind of collaborative, embodied practice, you are welcome to get in touch.