A Scholarship Essay Prompt Asks Me About the Merits of Technology – Anonymous Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel across the screen of an iPhone X. The same fingers that once delineated the Book of Genesis Now swipe through hundreds of pictures; He can see more art in an hour than in his entire first lifetime. His old canvas fit the measurements of the Temple of Solomon, Sacrosanct and ancient. Today, his work is instead measured in pixels As Instagram is configured onto the screens of a million followers. Half a millennium ago, he carved his masterpiece from a block of passed over stone, Still today he crafts David from imperfect materials, He reflects divinity on metal and silicon as he once did in marble. As children, we are told what we put on the Internet stays forever. What a comfort that would be to the artist who once said, “I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me In order to extend my life as long as possible.” Born again, he will see that he has been outlived five hundred years by his work. Tell me that the man who sought to put heaven on a ceiling, Would not rejoice to put that ceiling in the hands of anyone who wished to have it. Tell me that he would not see the beauty of a medium that transcends marble and canvas, I tell you that in technology he would find The potential for the eternal beauty that he spent his life chasing.
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