San Minn is a key figure in the early experimental artistic practice in Myanmar. His work always demonstrates consistent interest in social themes, executed through a bold use of colour, forceful lines and striking images assembled to convey symbolic and often surreal content. In this work, he has combined an image of a found image of an injured man during the World War II with a daily scene he saw on the street on Yangon. When this work was first shown at his second solo show in 1984 at YMCA, the work was attached with a medical drip set to form an installation with the painting, making this work one of the earliest examples of installation from Myanmar. The drip set has been broken and discarded since then. The work can be positioned as an exmple from his experimentation period where San Minn was exploring various new approaches to painting --from semi-abstract, surrealistic to spatial expansion of two dimensionality in paintings through employment of readymade objects.
