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*Two-year-old Parker Curry was totally captivated by Michelle Obama‘s portrait at the National Portrait Gallery. She believes she “is a queen, and she wants to be a queen as well,” her mom, Jessica Curry, told CNN.
Parker ignored her mother’s pleas to turn around for a photo.
“All I wanted was just one pic,” Curry said. “She was just so fixated on the portrait and wouldn’t turn away from it.”
Last month, the official portraits of Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama were unveiled at the NPG.
Michelle’s portrait was done by painter Amy Sherald. In her speech, Mrs. Obama said, “I’m also thinking about all of the young people, particularly girls and girls of color, who, in years ahead, will come to this place and they will look up and they will see an image of someone who looks like them hanging on the wall of this great American institution.”
Little Parker Curry’s photo illustrates this perfectly.
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Ben Hines, the man who took the photo, was in DC visiting his mother Donna. He said the Curry family were ahead of them in the line to see the Obama painting. The little girl’s mother attempted to get the girl to turn around but she just wanted to stare at the painting.
“Parker was in front of the portrait, and I really wanted her to turn around so I could get a picture with her, and she genuinely, honestly would not turn around,” Curry said. “She was uncooperative with me because she was just so focused on the portrait and studying it, and she was just so fascinated.”
She added: “As a female and as a girl of color, It’s really important that I show her people who look like her that are doing amazing things and are making history so that she knows she can do it.”
“It was so touching and uplifting for me to see this beautiful child looking at a beautiful portrait of a powerful woman,” Hines said. “I was so delighted to have been in the right place at the right time.”
“I think we were all just smiling, and her joy and her awe was infectious,” he said.
Donna said she felt as though time stopped as everyone watched Parker take in the Michelle Obama portrait.
“It’s hard to describe in words,” Donna stated. “She had such wonder on her face and her entire body just stopped as she looked at her, and she had this wonder that was silent and yet seemed to be saying something very big at the same time.”
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