The act of drawing is a way of vizualizing thought...
... drawings are a record of the hand following the mind...
...I am treating the act of thinking primarily as an aesthetic experience.

...Yet we, the audience, are seduced into comparing the primitive yet elegant lines and colors here to the images on the walls of the caves at Lascaux, and then wondering about what this says about the process.

at right: ANNA KARENINA,
1999: acrylic, silkscreen on canvas, 28in. X 35in. ing of wrong whenever I think of the day when its spires will not peek out from the top of the hill any more, and I shudder to think about the people unfortunate enough to wind up living there. ..It haunts me, but I want to save it....all who have been in its presence are invariably a part of it, that is the only conclusion i can draw. . .

The Weiler paintings explore the meaning of conscious and instinctive gesture through a series of quirky, linear, or angular doodles which float against backgrounds which are jewel-like, luminous, and full of sensual color.

at left: # 28, 1999: acrylic, silkscreen on canvas, 28in. X 35in.

The technique is passingly reminiscent of that of Cy Twombly, but more emphatically suggests that there are at least two levels of consciousness at work, and that there may be tension, if not open contradiction, between the two--- what a difference, perhaps, thirty years of the 20th century have made.

At right: Waterlilies, 1999: acrylic, silkscreen on paper, 22in. X 30in.

" The most recent works", Weiler states, "look towards nature... as a source of metaphors for the mind."

At left: Rainforest , 2000: silkscreen on canvas, 44in. X 55in.