This obsessive, 2-year-long drawing project is based in part on a vivid and disturbing sex dream about a gorilla. The project’s first form was as a short story based on the dream. Still very much in the grip of what the dream had stirred up, Weissman began making drawings based on the dream narrative. As the drawings morphed and multiplied, the project began to grapple with questions about being a hairy mammal, looking and being looked at, saintliness, sin, taboos, bestiality, the life force, the id, the satirizing of sexuality, the sacredness of the sexual, evolution, and the mystical. Sentences from the story made their way into some of the drawings