Maria Jose Nunez — MJ
Making spaces
worth
experiencing.
I'm a muralist and mechanical engineer from Venezuela, based between Texas, Florida, and wherever the next wall is. I make things that ask something of the room they're in — and of the people standing in front of them.
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Since I can remember, I've had an urge to create something bigger than myself. Any room I walk into, I can't help but wonder — how can this space be worth experiencing? How can it bring more joy?
I studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Florida because I wanted to understand how things hold together — structurally, logically, precisely. Then I picked up a brush and realized that's exactly what color does to a room too.
The two were never separate. A blueprint and a mural are the same posture — pure belief that the thing will exist. Both start with a blank surface. Both ask you to hold the whole and the detail at once.
University of Florida
Design for Manufacture · CNC Manufacturing
Color, Finish & Materials
Full-time Joy Artist
How I see it
Engineering & structure
The logic behind the form. CAD, fabrication, systems thinking. Project management that keeps the vision intact from brief to build. Finite element analysis — knowing exactly where and why something holds, before it ever has to.
Murals & large-scale art
The physical act of making. Color, finish, and material selection are never an afterthought — they're the decision. Brush on wall, pigment on surface, something bigger than myself. The dirtier the clothes, the better the mural.
The Venn diagram of it all
Better decisions = better design. MJOY. Writing. Reflection. The overlap where mind and heart stop being separate things. When everything has already been designed — it's time to create for joy.