Boston, MA
www.elizabeththach.com / @thachelizabeth
My work is focused on material culture. Using humor and metaphor, I explore how humans interact emotionally with an objective external world: the commodity objectsthemselves with, consume, and preserve and the art objects they create. I am also interested in how humans use language and poetry to describe the intangible (feelings, aspirations, the future). My imagery is informed both by futurist speculation and past (experienced) visual motifs: the video games of the ’80s and ’90s, the patterns of the archeological artifact as well as Greek and Roman ruins. Recurring themes include the idea of the art object as a stage, or alternatively, as a fragment of something larger or a ruin. Always, I seek images that are as simple and obvious as they are strangely incoherent.
