“When awake you see the real world, when asleep you dream but cannot always exactly identify the images and feelings…”
“This totally undetermined foggy dream is what I paint or draw, says Sen. The “Morph” theme expresses his flux of imagination.
When India was partitioned 1947 to create Pakistan, a new country for Muslims, about 20 million people of Bengal and Punjab were displaced and brutally victimized. Sen’s wealthy, literate family had huge landed property in erstwhile East Bengal, the present Bangladesh, which was carved out to be East Pakistan for Muslims. So for being Hindus Sen’s family was overnight evicted from their home. Without taking any possessions, they fled for their lives amidst people warring over religion, and so became squatted refugees in West Bengal.
