A creative response to an art history prompt based on the exhibit 'The Temple of Dendur' on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated 7.20.17.

What is your intention? When you hold a screen up to your face, attempting to capture an image to share, who are you benefitting? Those pictures often have no personality. There is no intention behind that photo. And quite frankly, it is cheating. You are cheating the viewer of a challenge, robbing them of complicated thinking and appreciation. Because everything we do is simple.

It is all too simple.

Pulling out a phone was the immediate response for anyone who was alone. When you are alone you are vulnerable. 

Nothing to hold your attention. People alone with their thoughts tend to get overwhelmed. They can't handle conversing alone. Their minds are unmanageable, seen as a garden you don't want to stumble upon. A labyrinth housing thorns on every wall that you are afraid to run into so you turn your back to the entrance and face the light, the light that once symbolized death but is now hand held but before you make this realization you must google what a labyrinth is. 

You are trapped between a slow death and a fast paced reality, so you opt out to be cradled in cyberspaces arms, fall into a coma with a processors hum and allow your battery to drain. Your life is all 2-dimensional. People only knew you from your captions, only speaking in recycled jokes and without a twitter, you probably wouldn't have a personality.

But as long as you upkept your feed, 1,012 half-known faces will have liked you. And that is all you will have when taken to your Dendur tomb.