Apologize to the Rhinos

When I was a child, one of my fondest memories was going to the North Carolina Zoo. I had an obsession with Rhinos and wanted to see them in person. I was obsessed because, for some reason, I took their near extinction by human hands very personally. Like it was my or my family’s fault somehow. So I wanted to go and apologize to them in person. I spent the entire day begging my family to take us there so I could apologize to them. They pretended to understand. Eventually, we got there, and I was mesmerized. At that moment, I was taken out of the zoo and into the wild, where I could see them in their natural habitat. Of course, I knew this was a zoo and an enclosure made to resemble the wild, but in my mind, at that moment, it was nature. I gave them a heartfelt apology on behalf of the human race and then went about my day.

I was drawn to this image because I wanted rhinos in the wild without humans nearby to simulate what I felt. For the audio, I liked the sound of crowds because visually, I felt like I was in the wild, but you cannot escape the sounds of the crowded zoo surrounding you. To simulate the experience that I felt.