My master’s thesis, consisting of eight pieces of art, was titled “The Ancient and Mysterious.” I continue to find myself drawn  to the tenets of Zen, the beauty of the old, the battered,  mystic, used, simple things of nature near the end of life’s journey and earth tones that represent the make up of a million different miracles. I would like my art to be described as “Wabi Sabi,” a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete; a beauty of things modest and humble and a beauty of things unconventional. I would like my art to be a tea ceremony; a place to meditate; a starting point for the mind.

MJ Cunningham

Contemporary Artist

Wilmington, NC