In the German language obvious conclusions are often labeled with the adjective "glasklar" - clear as glass. Yet, the mode in which I employ glass turns the obvious nature of the material world on its head. While as a single pane "clear" glass allows the viewer to get a nearly perfect view of objects beyond, the layering of such panes will achieve a dimming effect of increasing opaqueness - a result of the material's impurities. Repetitive images fade with increasing depth, therby simulating qualitatively different placements within a temporal frame of reference. I offer a conciously ambiguous play with perception as an attempt to illustrate mental and sense-related processes -- namely loss of definition and diminuation of memory with increasing temporal distance from any underlying event - in a static three dimensional medium.

Iris Seyler was born in Worms, West-Germany. She completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason and stone sculptor at Meisterschule fur Handwerker in Kaiserslautern, Germany,. After undergraduate studies at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design -BFA 1991 - she recieved her Masters of Fine Arts Degree from the Universty of Connecticut in 1997. Iris has exhibitied her work in the Mritimes, Western Canada, New England and New York City. This is her frist Toronto show.