"Barren land is a political statement reflecting the current economic struggles of my country, the decisions made and what effect they had on us, and the opinions expressed during those hard times. The war veterans, farm workers and the ordinary man on the street hungrily ran to the commercial farms, grabbing land for themselves as the new "movement" was to regain what was ours - the land of our forefathers, a revolution that had come too late in the history of our country. Our independence from the rule of colonialism had come at a high price. They had shed their blood to win the land, but where was the land, they ask even today? The less educated didn't really know what had transpired when the president signed the Lancaster House Agreement. When we had taken over the land, killed off the livestock and feasted on it, disrupted organized business, destroyed farms, made their homes ours, it dawned on us! Neither, the farm laborers, the peasant, the war veterans nor the man of the street had the technical know how to run the farms. "Even when the land was not in our hands at least we had food on our plates! They should have left the land in the hands of the commercial farmers," complained the elderly. The government had neglected to ask themselves, what we would do with the land? In this painting l am mocking the government for believing that the land would flourish under the new ownership of untrained farmers."