shannon nicole kringen publishing her own books

 

me- Shannon Nicole Kringen the writer. working on my 3rd book. have 145 pages to edit. it will be poetry/song lyrics/dreams i have had while sleeping and some essays i wrote about my life and philosophy i have about my path on earth. my first book is called aRt, identity and the sacred- it's a visual art book with some words on my ideas on my artwork being my spiritual practice- connecting me to that which is beyond myself in community- the human ecosystem etc, my 2nd book is Kringonian Pizzazz KringSPEAK poetry book and my 3rd will maybe be called KringFlower song lyrics and dreams. (my 4th book might be a memoir of my life thus far- Amplified Chameleon/Gettin her dreams on: Checkerboard Childhood in wild liveliewood)

Shannon Kringen Community Pop-Ups: Laughs in Spanish for Mothers Day Seattle Rep Theatre

 

i have been invited to be part of this show! Community Pop-Ups: Laughs in Spanish for Mothers Day https://www.seattlerep.org/.../community-pop-ups-laughs Sunday, May 11, 2025 1-2 pm

Seattle Rep 155 Mercer Street, Seattle

 

Shannon Kringen creates non representational designs inspired by her inner world and by the repeating shapes she sees in nature. she is neurodivergent and on the autism spectrum and has synesthesia (mixing of the senses- seeing shapes in her mind when she hears music) her photography and poetry also comes from this perspective. She also created an art car named "Opal Moonstone".

Shannon Kringen dot com

http://shannonkringen.com/

Shannon Kringen Goddess KRING just interviewed on the earth monster podcast!

 Shannon Kringen Goddess KRING just interviewed on the earth monster podcast! 

 

Shannon Kringen in a play 2025 Survival Guide: PANTS ON FIRE!

 

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6641361

You can buy tickets to the play I'm in! Many actors part of this. I'm in the play by Oneda Harris. Involving a vampire! I play a crisis counselor....2025 Survival Guide: PANTS ON FIRE!

If you can survive a DAMN show, you just might be able to survive 2025. Written and performed by local artists, our Survival Guide takes you to a televised autopsy, a difficult breakup, a one-woman show and the beauty pageant you never expected. A gravely ill man seeks an unorthodox cure and youre going to meet a vampire with a fascinating trick up his sleeve.

Showtimes: Friday and Saturday May 30, 31 at 730pm

Sunday June 1st at 230pm

Location

Seattle Center Armory, TPS Theater 4

305 Harrison St

Seattle, WA 98109

United States

 

 

Polarized Landscape song Goddess KRING

Opal Moonstone aRt car! available for events! http://shannonkringen.com/art_car.html

 

Opal Moonstone aRt car! available for events! http://shannonkringen.com/art_car.html

relax, forgive, let go, be here now

collages by shannon kringen

 two new collages i made. portrait model me and animal photographer me. artist and model me: http://shannonkringen.com/

 

the Goddess KRING foundation for outsider artists

 

the Goddess KRING foundation for outsider artists

I'm thinking I should write up a proposal of what I want to do and look for wealthy people or organisations who want to sponsor me or donate to me in achieving this goal of creating a foundation for artists that are outsiders/ neuro diverse (I'm on the autism spectrum and ADHD and OCD and dyslexic and I'm left handed and I'm an only child and I have synesthesia which means I see shapes when I hear music). and I Goddess Kring would be the mascot for it and I would encourage other artists to be supported in it by it and for it and maybe I should write up a proposal and look for wealthy people who want to support me in doing this. I like the idea of buying a building and having my foundation be partly a way for me to share my art and music and poetry and video and every kind of multimedia thing that I do and also some kind of a school a workshop a place for people can go and create multimedia art and then there could be a community room space for other people to make their art and share their art and then there would be of course a place for me my work to be displayed and appreciated and respected.

And I'm serious and not joking about this- I would love to start a foundation the goddess kring outsider artist foundation! Like my poem I wrote that turned into a song called kaleidoscope unicorn ...and it's also a painting ...oxymorons through the door a group for loners and they all showed up! my art museum and art gallery would be a foundation for people who feel like Misfits that are left out and they can be inspired by my art and create their own art. .... And yes I still want to try stand up comedy and yes I still want to make a documentary movie about my TV show that was on Seattle public access for 15 years every single week called Goddess Kring ...and yes I still want to write a memoir book call checkerboard childhood Amplified chameleon getting her dreams on. so I will continue pursuing all of these dreams and I want to try to get as famous as I possibly can for my creative expression and I really don't care if people reading this think that's silly and that's my ego I don't care I'm a dreamer I dream big I've wanted to be a famous artist since I was 3 years old and I don't think everybody wants that some people do and some people don't but I have the courage to say out loud I would love to be as famous as possible for my creative expression and even if I fail that's okay I'm going to try anyway and the literal truth is I already am a little bit famous in the Seattle area and I'm very happy and proud of that. Thank you Matt Smith the very talented performer from that show almost live that I took an improv acting class from he taught us to say thank you I failed and raise your hands up and everybody claps for you because it doesn't matter if you fail or succeed it matters that you get out there and you express yourself and you create and you make an impact on the world that's what I'm here to do. Did you know that the cast of almost slide the Seattle comedy show once wrote me a postcard and they all signed it and they said we wish we could do our show naked like the Goddess Kring!!!! Shannon Kringen Artist and Dreamer and experimental human being. FREE RANGE. WILD FERAL HUMAN

shannon kringen thought ramble

 

deep thought ramble by shannon kringen

I wish my parents had given me up for adoption to a family who really really wanted a child. I'm the only daughter of parents who split up when I was four - they only got married because of me and they tried to make it work for 4 years and then they divorced. and I'm just having a whole new perspective on it right now like I feel so overwhelmed by the weirdness of my family dynamic with each of my parents separately and I realize that I have really really poor boundaries with each of my parents I always wanted them to be my mentor and to support me in pursuing my dreams but they were so busy pursuing their own dreams my dad with his comedy and folk music that he never really took off with and trying to get his love life together and my mom with her love life she was married four times and it's like my whole life was about both of my parents is pursuing of their dreams and trying to figure out their careers and their love lives and then me I got sort of I had to just figure it out on my own pretty much they encouraged me in little ways here and there but I also witnessed them criticizing successful people and I felt like it wasn't okay to be successful because then it meant I was on some kind of ego trip or whatever and that I was a jerk a selfish jerk or whatever and I felt like is a little kid that I had to like support my parents and hope that they could succeed with their careers and their love lives separately and then they would maybe focus on me and maybe it's the autistic part of me or something but there's still part of me that's like this little kid that is hoping that they that my parents will grow up so that they can raise me and it's really sad because I'm like 56 years old I'm infertile going through menopause and it's just such a weird place to be and you have accomplished a lot with my artwork like my art modeling I've built myself a freelance career by myself with no help of my parents and I work with lots of really nice people in the art field the medical field and the dog and cat animal field so I've accomplished a lot but I am really really angry with both of my parents and then I feel really guilty for having anger towards them because they're just wounded children themselves and it really hurts my feelings that my mom doesn't want anybody to know that I'm her daughter for fear that they would judge her as a mother and also if they don't like my artwork then they might not like her artwork but her website is basically been under construction for like 20 years and there's some beautiful work that she's done but she has a tendency to be such a perfectionist that she doesn't finish a lot of it and I know I probably shouldn't be publicly saying this but man I'm upset about this and I just don't know why I can't seem to learn this lesson that I need to let my parents go and focus on taking care of myself and being the best that I can be and just accept the fact that maybe I will never have a a family in the way that I wish that I could but maybe I can build my career and try to be as famous as possible for my creative abilities and share with as many people in the community as I can with the ways that I'm gifted and don't worry so much about my personal life working out in a normal kind of way I do have friends that put up with me some of my friends I think really love me and some of them can hardly stand my challenges that I face and I am so caught up in trying to survive myself that I don't really have time to relax and enjoy my personal life it's mostly about working all the time as an art model a medical model A dog walk or a pet sitter and an artist trying to get famous I'm trying to make myself famous and in fact I am a little bit famous for my public access TV show got interviewed by Seattle magazine I've accomplished a lot I think in May I'm going to get paid to be part of a fancy party with my art car and another lady who has an art car and I'm in a play and I might start try stand up comedy I mean I'm accomplishing a lot and I'm good and I'm talented and I'm very reliable to all the people that I work for I'm a really good pet sitter I love lots of dogs and cats I'm accomplishing a lot and I mean something and I'm valuable and the reason why I'm so obsessed with trying to validate myself is because my parents they invalidate me they gaslight me and I feel like even if I won the Pulitzer prize they would probably criticize and tell me that I needed to go help homeless people you know I'm sure that they would find an angle on that and not want me to get too caught up in my own ego or whatever and it's like it doesn't even matter like nothing really matters except love anyway but I still want to accomplish everything I could possibly accomplish and not be afraid and I want to have the guts to get out there and pursue my dreams full throttle and not let anyone who criticizes me stop me or discourage me in any way shape or form I want to be a strong Viking