Maryrose Cobarrubias Mendoza

Through replication, scale, and perspective, Mendoza uses personal touch and common materials to transform the banal via drawing, sculpture, and installation toward visual poetry. Creating a visual language inspired by “things” helps restore parts of spoken language that were often absent or confusing during Mendoza’s childhood, since neither her native nor non-native languages were fully formed when she immigrated. From the spaces between American, Filipino, & Filipino American cultures, Mendoza investigates colonized & decolonized perspectives reflecting circumstances of cultural amnesia and assimilation through the process of the handmade.