Freedom wears many masks, but for women perhaps none feels as instinctive, or as poetic, as the bird, that creature suspended between earth and sky, always half in motion, always just beyond reach. It was already clear in Nelly Furtado’s 2000 hit song, ‘I’m Like a Bird,’ and now in Mariel Méndez’s latest collection that same idea finds a new visual life, where women and birds seem to mirror one…