In an interview with Mendoza, he shared that the ideas that informed these ten artworks stem from being ‘stranded’ in Manila during the CoVid-19 pandemic while waiting for his visa to return to Seoul, Korea where he had been residing for five years. Such precarity of times in which we lived, expanded his motif of interplay with shadows/silhouettes, and sense of aloneness in one’s inner and outer worlds that also speaks to a pulsating connectivity with the self. Mendoza’s diverse materials – traditional arts, fabric, and industrial wire metal – used to create these pieces embody the sacred fragility and strength of one’s inner being. In essence, the artworks presented in SHADOWS BETWEEN THE LINES are portals into the
un/conscious awakenings of the human spirit.