About

All Ways Open is a publication aiming to tell small stories about place: stories about pigeons and mountain ranges, stories both real and imagined. It's an experiment in opening writing outwards, directing readers towards visual histories and archives. We aim to think in triplicate: to consider past / present / future, visual / written / read, self / friend /community. In this game of telephone, we always begin with an archival image, which a writer interprets, which an artist then reinterprets. Each time the meaning shifts, changes, opens.

All Ways Open is open for submissions.

All—Ways—Open, Issue 2: Knoxville Metaphysical Library begins with a local archive and expands outward through multiple forms of engagement.

Archival materials are reactivated alongside excerpts from a journal on the Knoxville Metaphysical Library, images sourced from eBay, and a designed conversation that reframes these materials through dialogue. Together, these elements shift the archive from a site of preservation to a point of departure.

Contributors respond through writing and design, extending the material into new contexts and publics. What emerges is not a single narrative, but a layered publication-one that moves between document and interpretation, collection and exchange.

This issue considers publishing as a way of setting material in motion, where meaning is generated through circulation rather than fixed at its source.

Sequences

About All Ways Open is a publication aiming to tell small stories about place: stories about pigeons and mountain ranges, stories both real and imagined. It's an experiment in opening writing outwards, directing readers towards visual histories and archives. We aim to think in triplicate: to consider past / present / future, visual / written / read, self / friend /community. In this game of telephone, we always begin with an archival image, which a writer interprets, which an artist then reinterprets. Each time the meaning shifts, changes, opens.

All Ways Open is open for submissions.

Issue Two

Knoxville
Metaphysical
Library

DESIGNED AND EDITED BY CHRIS COTE AND JONATHAN BOGGS

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Knoxville
Metaphysical
Library