Puri Nori

Puri Nori is a two-part participatory work that enacts the cycle of entanglement and untangling within personal spirituality and social connection. In the gallery, a totemic pole inspired by sacred trees and communal ritual poles extends long strips of fabric across the room like visible lines of relationship. Visitors are invited to write personal or mythical narratives on slips of paper, tear them, and offer them to the pole. The video component, shot outdoors, documents participants gently untangling fabric wrapped around a living tree, their deliberate gestures echoing the labor of social disentanglement. After the exhibition, the artist gathers the offered fragments, mixes them into pulp and handcrafts them into ritual masks that carry both individual memory and collective tension. Together, the installation and video reflect on how the cycle of entangling and untangling reshapes relationships and redistributes power between artist and audience. By making visible the invisible threads that bind us, Puri Nori invites participants to recognize that their engagement not only completes the ritual but also authorizes the artist, revealing how audience participation continually reconfigures creative power. In this ongoing rhythm of binding and release, we inevitably entangle again.