Marjorie Welish

 

 
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                                 Locomotive

What is a portrait?
                                 Locomotive


When is a portrait not a portrait?
                                                       When it is locomotive
                                                                                             not physiognomic

insofar as pasturing.
                                   "Tendency of ideas to go over into movement"
                                                                                                               Movement

as such.
                Movement was used.
                                                    Walking along a walk



"as fully as possible.”
                                    Walking the walk
                                                                   Stance? Pavement?

As passage.
                      As passage to pavement
                                                                  walking the walk


republished as
                           "Tendency of ideas to go over into movement.   
                                                                                                       For these experiments

the subject was given a pencil.”
                                                     By the people.
                                                                               Men At Work.

As in the phrase
                              "working women:"