We wanted to lure with beauty so that the viewer stays inside the work.

David showed me that irony and sincerity cannot exist without each other–that, indeed, there is no sincerity without irony.

Above all, Weiss is having fun with drawing here, challenging himself to see how far he can change the image without giving up the idea of a connection from one iteration to the next.

His thirst for knowledge was tied up with a very particular manner of perception attuned to the nondescript, to ordinary things that typically go unremarked, and with an extraordinary propensity to question–and to take pleasure in questioning–conventions.