His works may depict a ubiquitous blue shepherd with a staff across his shoulders, but that could be a Fulani of West Africa, a Masai of Kenya, a herdsman of Persia or Afghanistan, which is why Haku Shah is known to be a ‘global’ artist with a rural Indian touch. His simple images of trees, cows and flutes also reflect his close relationship with tribal arts. He makes the images look so simple that a viewer may indeed be fooled into believing so, but the layers of thought processes beneath tale a different tale.