Breuer-Weil grew up in North London and lives near Hampstead Heath, a place he considers to be ‘of great mystical power’. This mystical element is strongly alluded to in his work. The maquette for Visitor is the working model for Breuer-Weil’s monumental head of the same title which was exhibited in Beyond Limits – Sotheby’s at Chatsworth House in 2010. The tactile surface reveals the artist’s fingerprints greatly enlarged in order to imply ‘that a higher power has constructed and placed this unearthly figure in this suffocated position’. Visitor I relates closely to Breuer-Weil’s Philosopher paintings, which also feature a large head creating a disturbance in the soil that surrounds it. Of these works, Breuer-Weil has stated that he wanted to express ‘the immense potential power of thought’.
He has commented of this piece: 'By slightly submerging the image I wanted to suggest our connection with the earth. When installed in water, I wanted to give the impression of a figure with far greater potential than what you actually see, and I believe the reflections accentuate that effect. This work is a visual embodiment of thought. Every human being is largely hidden and secret.'