Mark Armijo McKnight – Cut the World

Mark Armijo McKnight presents Cut the World, an exhibition opening September 9, 2026. About Mark Armijo McKnight Cut the World September 9 - October 24, 2026 Opening Reception: September 9, 2026 6-8 pm Anonymous 9 March 1959 Dear N., I am sorry you are so miserable. "Depression" means literally "being forced downwards." This can happen even when you don't consciously have any feeling at all of being "on top." So I wouldn't dismiss this hypothesis out of hand. If I had to live in a foreign country, I would seek out one or two people who seemed amiable and would make myself useful to them, so that libido came to me from outside, even though in a somewhat primitive form, say of a dog wagging its tail. I would raise animals and plants and find joy in their thriving. I would surround myself with beauty—no matter how primitive and artless—objects, colours, sounds. I would eat and drink well. When the darkness grows denser, I would penetrate to its very core and ground, and would not rest until amid the pain a light appeared to me, for in excessu affectus¹ Nature reverses herself. I would turn in rage against myself and with the heat of my rage I would melt my lead. I would renounce everything and engage in the lowest activities should my depression drive me to violence. I would wrestle with the dark angel until he dislocated my hip. For he is also the light and the blue sky which he withholds from me. Anyway that is what I would do. What others would do is another question, which I cannot answer. But for you too there is an instinct either to back out of it or to go down to the depths. But no half-measures or half-heartedness. With cordial wishes, As ever, C.G. Jung Exhibition Essay Cut the World Read Ksenia M. Soboleva's essay on Mark Armijo McKnight's Cut the World exhibition. Exhibition Catalog Mark Armijo McKnight Exhibition Catalog, 2026 8.5 x 5.5 inch, 28 page, soft cover, full color catalog of the Cut the World exhibition at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. Includes essay by Ksenia M. Soboleva.