Hercules Viljoen of Namibia was the recipient of the Thapong Residency in Botswana in 2002. He worked at the Thapong Visual Art Centre in Gaborone for a two-month period.

During his residency, Viljoen worked on an interactive installation which was created as "a reflection of my experience and comment of Botswana as a society being transformed by HIV/Aids, cultural conflict, tradition versus development and emerging economic power."

The installation consists of 3 components: a massive construction of branches (4m x 2m x 2.5m); 24 small pencil drawings placed in woden boxes - each buried in soil; and 24 traditional grass hand-brooms.

"The massive form is constructed of branches and recalls elements of traditional architecture as well as elements from nature. The 24 miniature drawings were observed from plant forms and transformed by placing so,me of them in metaphorical context. The boxes are buried in rich soil, recalling graves or shrines. Each of the drawings is echoed by a grass bundle, bound with a red ribbon. All bundles are in turn tied together into a single sheaf with a blue ribbon."

The entire installation was exhibited at the Botswana National Museum.