Sanatan Saha’s oeuvre of works intertwines the celebration of ephemeral landscape of Birbhum region, the mundane livelihoods of the village people, the spontaneous encounter with the indigenous culture and the effect of construction and urban development on the natural and cultural landscape of the Rarh region, specially Shantiniketan. The overlapping images, the juxtaposed tonality and the monotonous colour palette create a tapestry of the isolated patches of land, the ochre greenscape of forest, the abundance of pasture and the joy in triviality; it reflects an in-depth communication with the artist’s personal accounts and memory.

The incoherent images, the fragmented drawings and the erasure and the abstraction of surface somehow connect the fading away of memory and the changing landscape into a concrete and walled space, with the rapid pace of urbanisation. Saha’s works highlights the concern on hindrance of the physical landscape of Birbhum region as well as the everyday livelihood of the people. Saha’s works shed light upon the conceptual overlapping of the paradox of mundane interweaving a visual perspective of social relationships through human experience. The pliability and resilience that human needs to survive in the changing circumstances of life are so intensely reflected in his works.