While growing up, I was told stories not only of the horrors of Nazi Germany and what my parents endured, but also of the beauty of their lives before the war. These paintings deal with the destruction of beauty as well as hope and survival. This is suggestive of varying levels of emotional coping with events that were connected with her parents. Art for Weisel has become a method of coping with the emotions she inherited from her parents' survival. She began showing her art in l977, and a l980 exhibit was entitled Paintings of the Holocaust , a series of works done in pastel, oil paint, crayon and pencil on paper.
Symbols abound, be they concentration camp numbers, Hebrew words, or visual references.