What fables are I don’t exactly know

Though they seem like the reflections

Of more subtle interactions

To document the struggles against

Much grander institutions

(where the)

about tH E A  R T   ISt…

Amid cups of tea, mounds of fabric and thread, piles of cardboard, and altars of found objects, Geppetta, sometimes known as Adelaide Windsome, fervently builds tiny heads and arms, sculpts mystical creatures, and paints imaginary, yet nostalgic landscapes. What crawls from the wreckage become whimsical puppet theater and multimedia art described as “mournful but ingenious” with delightful twists and turns.

Geppetta’s work is never static but an ever-evolving force that spills from theaters to subway cars, galleries to street corners, challenging the borders of public and private, and broadening the possibility of audience.

Inspired by classic fables and myths, occult symbolism, street art, and surrealism infused with a pension for social/ environmental activism and transfeminist sensibilities, Geppetta presents art/performance as a cryptic, yet politically aware language that is imaginative and enlightening.

photo by monica gomery

Enduring a fairly transient life(style), Geppetta is currently planted in Philadelphia where she works as an art educator, street performer, avid butcher of grammar, and aspiring queer ukulele aficionado via her band Tiny Dirty Dancer in the Dark.

She has been featured nationally with the Tranny Roadshow, the Femme Show, Puppet Uprising, and Fresh Meat Productions (among others) and tours frequently with other queer artists and musicians.

love letters, rhetorical questions, booking, commissions, fortune-telling:

stitchingtentacles@gmail.com

please also see my profile at Trans-Genre