William Rankin:
Mbashiri (2006) William Rankin Bronze Sponsored by Bob and Bonnie Meeker
In this piece the artist depicts a cheetah, nature’s fastest land mammal, motionless on a rock overlooking an African savanna. He describes the sculpture as a metaphor for “the condition that we find ourselves in today—as the cheetah is endangered through habitat loss and over specialization—we too are at risk for these and other reasons of our own making. Mbashiri, in Swahili, means prophet or fortune teller.
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Zoo and animal photos and info: The North Carolina Zoo, Tamara Hill
