This little girl looking at Michelle Obama's portrait is making the internet FEEL EMOTIONS https://t.co/JjhQmHU4ah pic.twitter.com/oEFsCj8AXt
— Cosmopolitan (@Cosmopolitan) March 3, 2018
Two year old Parker Curry looks at the official portrait of Michelle Obama. Her mom says, "I'm just trying to raise a little girl who has opportunities to see women who look like her doing great things" https://t.co/iOl0KugQD9 pic.twitter.com/KUZAcCGtyW
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) March 2, 2018
Sometimes the internet doesn’t suck. Per the Washington Post
Parker Curry, age 2, was not being cooperative.
Standing in front of the new painting of former first lady Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery, Parker ignored her mother’s pleas to turn around for a photo.
“All I wanted was just one pic,” Parker’s mother, Jessica Curry, said Sunday. “She was just so fixated on the portrait and wouldn’t turn away from it.”
Curry, a lifelong District resident, was so fixated on her daughter being fixated on the portrait that she didn’t see a man to the side taking a cellphone photo of the moment — Parker in utter awe, her mouth agape.
The next morning, Curry said, her phone “blew up.”
The man to the side — 37-year-old Ben Hines of Alexandria — posted the photo on Facebook. It went really, really viral. And suddenly, little Parker went from being a little difficult to being more than a little famous.
The photo, taken Thursday, has been shared, liked, tweeted, retweeted and Instagrammed thousands of times around the world. Obama reacted with not one but three heart-eye emoji…
Parker, in her less than 36 months alive, has become a big admirer of the former first lady. She especially enjoyed seeing Obama dance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” After seeing the portrait, Parker thinks Obama is a “queen.”
(Curry is not certain her daughter knows that Michelle’s husband is former president Barack Obama or that he even exists.)…
Buzzfeed has a quote from the artist, Amy Sherald:
… When I look at this picture I think back to my first field trip in elementary school to a museum. I had only seen paintings in encyclopedias up to that point in my life. There was a show up of work by painter @thebobartlett whose work still inspires me to this day. There was a painting of a black man standing in front of a house. I don’t remember a lot about my childhood, but I do have a few emotional memories etched into my mind forever and seeing that painting of a man that looked like he could be my father stopped me dead in my tracks… I knew I wanted to be an artist already, but seeing that painting made me realize that I could. What dreams may come?… #representationmatters
I don’t know if Parker will actually remember the moment in this photo, but I can attest that some of my very earliest memories are of specific museum exhibits (an Egyptian lion-headed sculpture at the Metropolitan, a tiny perfect Peruvian silver llama at the Heyes) — and, of course, she’s got this picture to remind her now.
This little girl's powerful reaction is why we march. It's why we fight. It's why, no matter how tired we may become, we keep pressing forward. Because our actions today will transcend generations. https://t.co/aLn8imFpWw
— DCCC (@dccc) March 4, 2018
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