{"id":119875,"date":"2021-02-06T18:32:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T23:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=119875"},"modified":"2021-02-06T18:43:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T23:43:01","slug":"wonderful-visual-emblem-glass-monument-to-kamala-harris-erected-in-front-of-lincoln-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wonderful-visual-emblem-glass-monument-to-kamala-harris-erected-in-front-of-lincoln-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wonderful Visual Emblem\u2019: Glass Monument To Kamala Harris Erected In Front Of Lincoln Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwonderful-visual-emblem-glass-monument-to-kamala-harris-erected-in-front-of-lincoln-memorial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=119875&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1230988576.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A monument commemorating Vice President Kamala Harris as the first woman of color elected to the nation\u2019s second-highest office was installed in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The portrait, which measures 6-by-6 feet and weighs 350 pounds, is made from a sheet of cracked glass meant to symbolize how Harris shattered the glass ceiling, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kamala-harris-56fbef7fde27d15b49f81424e108cad0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">View from the Lincoln Memorial <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vTKJYzwSmW\">pic.twitter.com\/vTKJYzwSmW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Isabel Lara (@isalara) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/isalara\/status\/1357759192870907909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis will just be a wonderful visual emblem of this moment in time and hopefully people will reflect a little bit on all the barriers that have been broken by her election,\u201d said Holly Hotchner, president and CEO of the <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.womenshistory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Women\u2019s History Museum<\/a>, a group that co-sponsored the display.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Kaplan, a co-founder of Chief, which is a networking organization for female executives that also co-sponsored the portrait, said, \u201cI think what makes it so moving to me is to see the tiny cracks, to see those fissures and everything they represent.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CK6-mgcFuqG\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The piece, which was commissioned by creative agency BBH New York, was fashioned by glass artist Simon Berger. Using a hammer, Berger broke a piece of laminated glass until it resembled a photograph of Harris taken by Celeste Sloman. \u201cI hit the glass directly with the hammer, so that cracks and impacts occur,\u201d he said. \u201cHard hits create abstraction and I \u2018paint\u2019 with targeted fine hits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project took about a day to complete in Berger\u2019s Swiss studio, after which it was carefully shipped to New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted it to really be like a show-stopping piece that people are going to see and interact with and really celebrate her in the way that she should be,\u201d said Liz Loudy, who is a creative director at BBH New York.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chief | Glass Ceiling Breaker\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6uRCGeKJdbM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>The daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, Harris was the first black senator from California and was also the first woman and person of color to be the state\u2019s attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen our very democracy was on the ballot this election, with the very soul of America at stake,\u201d Harris said during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-harris-victory-speech-46th-president-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">victory speech<\/a> in Wilmington, Delaware, in November. \u201cYou ushered in a new day for America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor four years, you marched and organized for equality and justice.&nbsp;And then you voted. And you delivered a clear message. You chose hope and unity, decency, science and yes, truth,\u201d Harris continued.&nbsp;\u201cWhile I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last.&nbsp;Because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The portrait is slated to remain at the Lincoln Memorial until 9 p.m. on Saturday night, after which it will go to the Chief office in New York and be displayed publicly somewhere else yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/boston-removes-statue-of-lincoln-emancipating-slave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Removes Statue Of Lincoln Emancipating Slave<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A monument commemorating Vice President Kamala Harris as the first woman of color elected to the nation\u2019s second-highest office was installed in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892798,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5633,5635,4021,4018,5636,5632],"class_list":["post-119875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-emblem","tag-glass","tag-harris","tag-kamala","tag-monument","tag-visual"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}