have you heard the new Goddess KRING music?

 

i love our new album Amplified Chameleon by Goddess Kring! have you heard it? indie music from seattle by me shannon kringen and dave flowers from interactive jack records 

https://goddesskring.bandcamp.com/album/amplified-chameleon

 

Encourage Bravery, Inspire Others

 

Encourage Bravery, Inspire Others

In the premiere episode of the Earth Monster podcast, we dive deep into the story of Shannon Kringen, an artist and storyteller who discovers the impact that one song had on shaping her identity and helping her to heal after her parent's divorce. As a child caught between two worlds, Shannon found solace and identity in Tom Petty’s “Refugee,” a track that became her anthem of survival and self-discovery. Through candid conversation, Shannon reveals how music helped her navigate the emotional turbulence of family separation, code-switching between parents, and the ongoing journey to find her authentic self. Listen along and find a piece of yourself in her story as we celebrate vulnerability, explore the messy truths that shape us, and discover how the right song at the right moment can transform a life. If you’ve ever felt lost, divided, or searching for your voice, this episode is for you. #divorce #ChildOfDivorce #musicheals #EarthMonsterPodcast #podcast #shannonkringen #goddesskring

short clip:  https://youtube.com/shorts/6GRSX4AWtyI?feature=shared

full episode:  https://youtu.be/wBy70ix_M6g?feature=shared

 

4th of July Fireworks 2025 Seattle with Shannon Kringen Music

"4th of July Fireworks 2025 Seattle with Shannon Kringen Music

" Here's my new YouTube video I filmed of the entire 4th of July fireworks show last night in Seattle and I put my original Shannon kringen Dave Flowers music as the soundtrack.

Art Car Opal Moonstone and Goddess KRING the the 4th of July Parade Bothell 2025

 

Opal Moonstone

by Goddess KRING

Opal Moonstone is an improvisational design with rhinestones on a 2010 Honda Fit. I am delighted to add colors and shapes when I get the urge. I am known in Seattle for painting onto shoes and hats, and giving my hand painted "KringWEAR" shoes to musician Tori Amos, I am known as "Goddess KRING" from public access TV in Seattle and this art car is my current big project. I am an experimental multi media artist. Some of my favorite artists that inspire me are: Antoni Gaudí, Yayoi Kusama, Gustav Klimt, and Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

I use clear Silicone Sealant Glue on my art car. It has taken two years so far and I am still adding to it.

Ask me any questions about doing your own art car!

art car. who made it? me! solo art by me

 i still get asked "who did the work on your art car. ME! i did this solo. http://shannonkringen.com/art_car.html Opal Moonstone
by Goddess KRING

Opal Moonstone is an improvisational design with rhinestones on a 2010 Honda Fit. I am delighted to add colors and shapes when I get the urge. I am known in Seattle for painting onto shoes and hats, and giving my hand painted "KringWEAR" shoes to musician Tori Amos, I am known as "Goddess KRING" from public access TV in Seattle and this art car is my current big project. I am an experimental multi media artist. Some of my favorite artists that inspire me are: Antoni Gaudí, Yayoi Kusama, Gustav Klimt, and Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

I use clear Silicone Sealant Glue on my art car. It has taken 3 years so far and I am still adding to it.

Ask me any questions about doing your own art car!

 

amplified chameleon whole album

11 songs by Dave and me! the full length album Amplified Chameleon
released June 30, 2025
Shannon Kringen lyrics and vocals
Dave Flowers music, arrangement, mix
Interactive Jack Records Seattle

naked in the forest spoken word

new video! https://youtu.be/v6ORtkEbmbU?feature=shared

spoken word by Shannon Kringen Goddess KRING

track #11 from the full length album Amplified Chameleon lyrics Naked in the Forest by Shannon Kringen Blowing the lid off grid sealing the deal spinning the wheel revealing/burrowing with the earth worms pacify the masses classify the drastic being elastic vibrational frequencies healing cells energy electro magnetic biofield healing reveals healing reveals spirit you hear it spirit you hear it spirit you hear it spirit you hear it hijack biology nature dolphins communicate high pitch low pitch are you kidding me with the no liability the soul of the soil the soul of the soil free speech individuality diplomacy freedom of thought freedom of action see through cells vibrational frequencies see through transparent nuturing nature naked in the forest in bed with devilish barefoot delicate curious tingling toes don’t monkey frankenstein with nature blow that whistle blaze that trail micro organisms fading credits from Amplified Chameleon, released June 30, 2025 Shannon Kringen lyrics and vocals Dave Flowers music, arrangement, mix Interactive Jack Records Seattle

kring with no clothes song about art modeling

  it's free to listen on bandcamp under my music site called Goddess KRING

https://goddesskring.bandcamp.com/track/kring-with-no-clothes
poem i wrote about being a figure model since 1992
lyrics
Kring With No Clothes (song I wrote about figure modeling) lyrics by Shannon Kringen Goddess KRING” , music and mixing and producing by Dave Flowers “Supaflower” Interactive Jack Records Seattle)

here I am again (thumbnail sketches)
naked on the stand (value studies)
never shaved my bush (composition)
you can draw my tush (forshortening, conte crayon, pastel charcoal)
I get paid to daydream
funny as it may seem
stacks and stacks of drawings
blessings in disguise
making me immortalized
many kinds of paintings, posing for the artists
feels like I just started
33 years and counting

here I am again (glazing layers)
naked on the stand ( painting/drawing/sculpture)
never shaved my bush (proportion)
you can draw my tush (core shadow)

chiaroscuro , busty beauty
lusty lady, contrapasta
naked bike body painting
public access tv
gesture portrait figure
gesture portrait costume
another day at the office with my clothes off
staring off into space
paid to express grace
used to draw the model
now I am the model

here I am again (warm and cool)
naked on the stand (color notes color notes)
never shaved my bush (shading dark and light)
you can draw my tush (mixing colors palette knife/palette knife)

scandanavian skin stones
soothing sound of charcoal
standing in the round
surrounded charcoal sound

here I am again (gesso the canvas)
naked on the stand (rough in sketch in)
never shaved my bush (30 second gesture)
you can draw my tush (hips and shoulders

here I am again (latissimus dorsi)
naked on the stand (human anatomy)
never shaved my bush (or my armpits)
you can draw my tush (natural free range human)

staring off into space
paid to express grace

Official Video The STORY OF GODDESS KRING!

Sneak Peak The Story of Goddess KRING song one

Audiobook Read by the Author Kringonian Pizzazz by Shannon Kringen Part I

tom petty doll spiritual deity guru for kring

Shannon Kringen Artist at Fremont Fair Seattle

 To my Seattle friends. I will have art on display and for sale at the Fremont Summer Solstice Art Fair Parade. June 21, 22nd 2025. I will be performing in the parade dancing in the Street in costume as Goddess Kring and my art car Opal Moonstone will be on display for the public all day Saturday and all day Sunday and I will have a table with my poetry book, my original poetry I write with my voice singing turned into music CDs, greeting cards of my original photography and my original non-representational abstract inspired by patterns in nature artwork... and framed prints that you can purchase for a sliding fee scale etc reasonable prices! You can also scan the QR code of the original music that I created with Dave Flowers also happy to answer any questions about my art or my public access TV show if you remember me from those days? always open to meeting new people who appreciate my work and talking with you about art Freedom creativity following your heart and soul... manifesting your dreams etc. that's what makes me tick to connect and communicate and share with the community and the audience that appreciates the creative work that I do... also love to inspire other people to pursue their dreams and do what they love. Art Cars parked: SACBO (Seattle Art Car Blow Out) 3427 Evanston Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103-8618 Saturday June 21, 10am-8pm, Sunday June 22nd 11am-6pm. see you there! Shannon Nicole Kringen Goddess KRING.

Shannon Kringen Art opening tonight Antgallery Seattle Center

 

tonight:

Art Show Saturday June 7th 5-8pm, 2 pieces of my art on display (black and white photo of me modeling by Greg Karl and an abstract print by me called Mapping Internal Lands) A/NT Gallery 305 Harrison St., Seattle, WA 98109 https://antgallery.org

 

Freehold Theatre Gala Cake Donation

 

i baked this cake and am donating it to this event tonight. i love taking acting classes here: Freehold Theatre's Annual Gala : A Seat at the Table Join us on June 6th at Washington Hall for Freehold's 2025 Gala: A Seat at the Table.

Celebrate with us and support Freehold Theatre in this elegant historic setting. Event includes food, drinks, auction, games and more! Where: Washington Hall is located at 153 14th Ave When: Doors for the Gala open at 5:30pm. Dinner service begins at 6:15pm, and programming at 7pm. The event will run until about 9:15pm Seattle Friends you can register/buy tickets for this event here- they are auctioning off prizes also to those who attend and donate: 

 

Kent Nerd Party Goddess KRING Art Car

 My aRt car Opal Moonstone will be at the Kent Nerd Party tomorrow Saturday June 7th
Art Cars
On 2nd Ave S between Gowe and Meeker from 2PM to 7PM
The Nerd Party is a street-wide event with a cosplay contest, miniature painting contest, Lego museum, LARP games, outdoor vendors, and more.
All nerds are welcome—whether you love science fiction, fantasy, horror, anime, gaming, or one of the other innumerable geeky pursuits!
Art Cars
On 2nd Ave S between Gowe and Meeker from 2PM to 7PM https://www.downtownkentwa.com/event/knp25/

 

Shannon Kringen Art Events June 7th 2025

 

2 art events on the same day Shannon Nicole Kringen is involved in! Saturday June 7th the Kent Nerd Party 2-7pm and a/nt gallery opening 5-8pm.

details: my art Car Opal Moonstone on display with me there in my Goddess KRING costume! Kent Nerd Party 2-7pm

215 1st Ave S. Kent, WA 98032 United States https://www.downtownkentwa.com/event/knp25/

2 pieces of my art on display (black and white photo of me modeling by Greg Karl and an abstract print by me called Mapping Internal Lands) at art not terminal gallery in the seattle center next to the fountain 5-8pm opening night, then on display for one month. A/NT Gallery 305 Harrison St., Seattle, WA 98109 https://www.antgallery.org/

 

Shannon kringen poetry and music Seattle

 Tonight after the play that I act in is over I will have my CD of original music and my poetry book of my original poems that I published and created myself available and for sale or you can just say hello to me after the show for anybody who's at the play tonight in Seattle....Goddess Kring music and poetry. tonight 730pm. Sunday tomorrow 230pm. Location
Seattle Center Armory, TPS Theater 4
305 Harrison St
Seattle, WA 98109
United States 2025 Survival Guide: PANTS ON FIRE! my poetry book link: Kringonian Pizzazz https://www.amazon.com/Kringonian-Pizzazz-KringSPEAK-Poetry-Goddess/dp/B0CSB2TQP9 my music streaming link: Goddess KRING KringFLOWER music Interactive Jack Records Seattle https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/goddesskring/kringflower-produced-by-supaflower

 

Seattle Art Car Events Shannon Kringen Goddess KRING

 

Shannon Kringen Goddess KRING Art Car Events:

June 7th 2025 Kent Nerd Party https://www.downtownkentwa.com/event/knp25/

June 21, 22 2025 (Goddess KRING dancing in the Summer Solstice Parade and part of Seattle Art Car Blow Out SACBO) https://fremontfair.com/

July 12, 13 2025 Wedgwood Art Festival http://www.wedgwoodfestival.com/

Wednesday, August 13, 2025 SeaScare and Porch Light Parade - City of Brier https://seascare.com/

Bothell 4th of July Parade 2025 (maybe) Fourth of July Parade

http://shannonkringen.com/art_car.html

 

Goddess KRING acting in a play Seattle

 Seattle Friends come see me act Tonight: Saturday May 31 7:30 p.m. and Sunday June 1st at 2:30 p.m. matinee Seattle Center theater of Puget sound on the 4th floor of the Seattle armory building. The show is called pants on fire survival guide 2025 tickets here online or $20 at the door.
Location
Seattle Center Armory, TPS Theater 4
305 Harrison St
Seattle, WA 98109
United States 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. https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6641361

Comedy Kring rough draft improv goofy

Goddess KRING showing artwork at Folklife Seattle

 Just found out from the curator of the Folklife Art Show that my piece of artwork is on the third floor armory gallery. As part of the Northwest Folklife Festival at Seattle Center https://nwfolklife.org/ \

 

Goddess KRING music

 

Music, Audio, and Spoken word

by Goddess KRING

Stream Goddess KRING music and music videos on many platforms.

on bandcamp
https://goddesskring.bandcamp.com/

on Interactive Jack Records
https://www.interactivejack.com/discography.php?pageid=25

on distrokid
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/goddesskring/kringflower-produced-by-supaflower

Goddess Kring is releasing music projects on interactive jack records in collaboration with producer and musician, Supaflower. They cover a lot of territory including pop, rock, experimental, acapella poems, heavy rock, new wave, and even jazz. The poems are otherworldly with interesting editing and studio effects. The pop tracks are instantly accessible yet have unique timing, melodies and forms of rhythmic displacement that is unlike other pop music. The rock tracks border on new wave and her speaking voice has both drama and coolness, the perfect combo.

Shannon Kringen Acting in a play

 

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

 

Goddess KRING t shirt and Collage will be at Folklife Festival Seattle 2025

 

Here's my new Goddess Kring t-shirt and the collage I made printed onto canvas that got into the folklife festival in seattle may 23-26th 2025. I was also with my art car for a paid party event but I had to sign a non-disclosure agreement so I can't really share photos. I'm waiting to hear if I can share photos later on in the future. it was a private party for a company and they booked me and another Art Car person for a special event... it was really quite interesting and very beautifully done. Will share about it when I find out what's possible in sharing... I'm just grateful to be involved in so many creative projects with my artwork! my acting, my comedy, my music, my art car, my visual art, mu poetry, all the different things that I do working with caring for animals, working with medical students and working with artists who draw the model. I am very very blessed and very very grateful for all the creative opportunities that I'm involved with as I continue to navigate how I heal and grow and learn -find more inner strength and individuate, drop the past be in the present etc. i also met with a doc film maker about my movie ideas. not sure where thats going but good to be open and talk movies with people in the industry. might do my own doc film about "Goddess KRING" or might find others who want to do this with me? or might never do the movie at all? who knows. i do want to write a book/memoir poetic book about my life "checkerboard childhood" part of my working title. amplified chameleon getting her dreams on etc. i keep writing comedy ideas down for my stand up comedy class! fun fun.

Shannon Kringen Artist and Seattle icon

 

http://shannonkringen.com/art_car.html

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

 

SACBO 2025

Seattle Art Car Blowout at the Fremont Fair Seattle 2025. June 21st and 22nd. 50-70 wacky decorated vehicles on display for 2 days at the famous Fremont Fair in Seattle. Some of the cartists will be exhibiting their crafts next to their sculpted & painted art cars.
FREE !! Upper Burke Parking Lot at the Fremont Fair (N. 35th, cross st. is Evanston) https://fremontfair.com/art-cars/

 

 

Shannon Kringen Art at Folklife Seattle 2025

 this collage of Self Portrait photos and abstract paintings by me Shannon Nicole Kringen i call Windsong Spiral Drive will be hanging in seattle at the 54th Annual Northwest Folklife Festival 2025 May 23 through May 26th. it's a 16x16 canvas print. https://nwfolklife.org/

 

goddess kring music videos!

making a music video of The Story of Goddess KRING song! monday may 26th! me in my art car in costume lip synching to my song! a dream come true!~!!!!!!!!! yeah https://youtu.be/PhWvz-6oWNM?feature=shared 

freedom of thougt and expression by shannon kringen

 

clever guerilla art on the freeway disguised to look like a real freeway sign. Pretty interesting. Thankfully I was stuck in a traffic jam on the freeway so was able to take this. FREE TO PUBLISH my photos on your blog under creative commons Attribution-ShareAlike ! just give me credit Shannon Nicole Kringen Creative Photography https://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/

beyond duality

beyond duality

Part of why I want to do comedy is because that's a way of expressing myself in a therapeutic way and breaking rules and being rebellious without getting myself in trouble... because I'm actually quite angry and disturbed by what I think is a multi-level manipulation campaign... ironically people argue about what's true and false and I think some of the people that argue the hardest about what is true and what is false are the most manipulated and fooled and buy into the shadows on the wall instead of the real thing ...but I think that is by design... so comedy comedy comedy bring it On let's be funny! let's build bridges and not walls against each other etc find a way to connect with community without getting myself ostracized and humor might be one way to do that if that's not too honest for me to say this I know that comedy and tragedy is the flip side of one coin

I try to outsmart the gas lighters like that song that I wrote It's called outsmart the gaslighters and I wrote another song called polarized landscape about current times and I wrote another song that is called cancel culture vulture virtue signal soldiers and I think a lot of people are may or may not even be listening to what I'm saying in those lyrics but if they do they may or may not understand the point that I'm trying to make and let's face it nobody wants to be ostracized including me... being ostracized does not feel good... and it's part of our survival mechanism to not want to be completely demonized and ostracized from the human group that were in... I try to figure out how to build bridges with people and get away from the walls that people are putting up around each other. I know that I don't want to segregate myself from other kinds of people that think differently than me... so I'm trying to keep my mind open and not stereotype other people and when other people are stereotyping me I'm trying to just ignore it and move on and forgive them for being so narrow-minded or whatever... caught up in fear to the point where they feel like they have to stereotype other people. I very much relate to this video although I'm frustrated that I don't actually know how to speak my truth and stand up for myself and when people criticize me and tell me I'm wrong I feel like I'm on trial and I am not necessarily good at defending my right to have a different opinion than the cliche sound bites that people regurgitate and labeling who are the good people and who are the bad people... I see it in a totally different way... I see all the nuances and all the layers and how fake people are with each other actually and that they just want to feel safe... they don't really want to know the full on truth and yet that's what people mostly argue about these days is what is true and what is false and I think that we're having psychological warfare inflicted upon us.

Why Society Rejects the Truly Intelligent | Schopenhauer

I think that certain things have been hijacked and people are being manipulated and really more complicated ways than they even realize that a lot of really well-meaning people are saying and doing certain things but I don't think they're seeing that the manipulation is more clever than that. I just want to acknowledge the creepy feeling I have... like I know that these social media sites are mostly used to share superficial information- but I suppose we are allowed to be political activists on these sites if we have the correct cliche opinion and we demonize anybody who disagrees with us... it's like a form of psychological warfare that people are putting each other through and policing each other's thoughts. these days it is very creepy to live in a culture where I truly feel like I'm not safe in saying what my real opinions are... because when you say something that's not the cliche and pick side a or pick side b people jump on you and criticize you and I just want to point out I don't feel comfortable saying what my real opinions are here but I do feel comfortable expressing the frustration and the psychological disorienting what is it called cognitive dissonance of realizing that humans are being trained to only think they can pick box a or box b and not actually question the indoctrination of thinking that we're a good person if we think one thing and we're a bad person if we think something else and it makes me think of the stories of the Brave New World and 1984 and Plato's allegory of the cave is an allegory.

Seattle Rep Pop Up Art Show Shannon Kringen

 my next art event: https://www.seattlerep.org/events/special-events/community-pop-ups-laughs Community Pop-Up Date:
May 11th 2025, 1 p.m. to 2pm
Located in Seattle Rep's Lobby
Tickets to the May 11 at 2 p.m. Laughs in Spanish performance required for entry.

 

random land

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

Polarized Landscape song Goddess KRING

self esteem and shannon kringen

 learn to do what people with high self esteem do! that is my goal for today ha ha. i know i am good person with talent but i truly don't feel like i deserve "success" and i feel guilty when i "win" contests etc. and i feel jealous of others with more self confidence than me. i also get angry when i see self confident people over doing that and putting others down while they succeed etc. i want to do both succeed and not apologize for it but also encourage others to go for their dreams and love themselves no matter what in terms of "success" or "failure". i trust myself to some extent but need more of this self love/self confidence. be an advocate for yourself and lift other up whenever possible etc. when people get competitive with each other and play games it's big time creepy but that is what egos do in humans. we want to "win" and see others "lose" that is creepy! i want to make the world a better place AND succeed and not be a DORMAT.

Shannon Kringen acting in a play in Seattle

 I'm Acting a character in one of the short plays that's part of this performance at the Seattle Center the last weekend of May 2025. I play some scenes in the play that is written by Oneda Harris. 2025 Survival Guide: Pants On Fire May 30,31 730pm and June 1st 230pm at Seattle Center Armory Theatre 4th Floor 305 Harrison Street Seattle, WA 98109 (Theatre Puget Sound) 

 

stand up comedy Goddess Kring?

Dreaming Seattle Art Museum Retrospective Goddess KRING show

Dreaming Seattle Art Museum Retrospective Goddess KRING show

woah! i did a 55 minute monologue! improvisation!

goddess kring showing art

 

this saturday april 5th 2025 is a/nt gallery opening 5-8pm i have some art showing again here: https://www.antgallery.org/ 305 Harrison St., Seattle, WA 98109 at the Seattle Center at the

Northeast corner of Climate Pledge Arena. my art is called "Collaborate with Goddess KRING"

 

Val Kilmer is Inspiring

 I'm inspired by a lot of musicians and actors who happen to be famous and I don't believe in dehumanizing people just because they're famous! they're still real human beings that move us and touch us, inspire...innovate and contribute to the art and music and theater/film/acting world! Still thinking about the Val Kilmer documentary that I love so much called VAL ... so here's the trailer for it for those of you who are curious and have never seen it. it's really a beautiful movie and uniquely done narrated by his son who sounds very similar to him and then you partly get to hear how Val had to talk through the throat device because he had throat cancer etc he died on April 1st 2025 from pneumonia complications I guess and he was 65 years old... I'm very moved by this movie and I've seen it twice... I think I want to watch it a third time... it's very inspiring and it's magical to see videos of him with his brother when they were like 11 or 12 years old doing skits and filming themselves and making little movies and then he just kept on going I think he went to Juilliard to study acting just a very inspirational person and I absolutely love his version of Jim Morrison in the movie The Doors and his Mark Twain solo one man show that he did right before he got ill is also looked magical and I wish he'd been able to do more of that... This documentary that Val made about his life also contains some of his visual art and collages which I also enjoy and appreciate he got more into doing visual art when he had his throat cancer because he was less able to do acting so he explored his visual art creativity which I think is wonderful... https://youtu.be/trDBnzJqN6M?feature=shared

new kring

 https://flic.kr/p/2qUrN4o

 

Earth Worm Encounter

a/nt gallery seattle kringen art showing

a/nt gallery seattle  kringen art showing 

philosophical kring