19. Construction

 

Color, color and colors...

Thus Léger expanding like the sun of the tertiary epoch

And hardening

And settling

Still life

Terrestrial crust

The liquid

The misty

All that grows tarnished

Cloudy geometry

The plumbline that’s resorbed

Ossification.

Locomotion.

Everything swarms

The mind awakes at once and dons wear in its turn like

     animals and plants

Prodigiously

And thus

The painting becomes that enormous thing stirring

Wheel

Life

Machine

Human soul

A 75 breech

My portrait

 

September 1919.