The feelings at springtime come alive in gestures between pastel and paper. They express the softness of relationships among all living beings.
Sometimes saturated, sometimes subtle, images in pastel shades hide one behind the other to bring us the joyous waves of the spring air. The artist highlights the unique light of this season of joie de vive and the gracefulness of nature that makes the human society lose itself in a paradise of beauty.
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.
