Elise Weber approaches painting as a ritual of attention—an act of slowing down, concentrating, and allowing thought to drift alongside intuition. Each painting becomes an exploration of the self, marked by moments of resistance and frustration before something finally unlocks. This process of hesitation and release shapes her relationship to the image, making painting both a confrontation and a form of letting go.

Photography often marks the first gesture in her work. By capturing fragments of lived moments—scenes seen, experienced, or quietly observed—Weber extracts memories from everyday life. These images function less as documents than as triggers, anchoring her paintings in moments that once existed while allowing them to transform through time and reflection.

Drawing from poetry, cinema, and her personal archive of photographs, Weber constructs intimate images that hover between presence and absence. Her work dwells in the ordinary—friendships, solitude, fleeting encounters—revealing their quiet emotional weight. Through a careful balance of control and surrender, her paintings invite the viewer into a slowed-down space where memory, perception, and inner experience gently unfold.