KringWEAR
Hand Painted Shoes
by Shannon Kringen http://www.shannonkringen.com/kringwear.htm
I'll be art modeling in costume from noon to 4:00 tomorrow Saturday September 7th for the Grand Opening of Gage SLU new location Seattle! 2107 Westlake Ave Seattle, WA 98121 (I have been one of their art models since 1992! 32 years!) https://gageacademy.org/
Something Rather Than Nothing Podcast Shannon Kringen
Shannon Kringen
Poetry Writer and Musical Spoken word Artist
Bio:
Multi Media Artist
Shannon Kringen grew up in San Diego California and Whidbey Island
Washington. She is a self taught poet, multi media visual artist
with a background in Graphic Design. She has worked as a figure model
in Seattle since 1992. She completed her BA degree in Arts and
Literature from Antioch University in 2013. She sees her creative
expression as a tool to connect with community and a way of
increasing self awareness and tap into a deeper wisdom within.
Artist Statement:
I work with
words in writing poetry and cameras and paint improvisationally. I am
very kinesthetic and use my whole body when I create. Im very
sensitive to sound and music and phrases pop into my head and I write
them down and then “riff” off them. I like to say “Catch the
Windsong Spiral Drive, Crack the Code, Left and Right node” my
poems start with one phrase that I hear in my head then I start
writing and adding from there and usually end up with metaphors and
double entendres that surprise and delight me.
In my photography, I fall in love with shape, texture, and light while out wandering. I like to capture what is naturally there but in a way that abstracts it and allows the viewer to notice something new and different about ordinary physical reality. I carefully compose all my photos spontaneously as I am shooting, moving the camera angle until I see what looks like a balanced, dynamic composition.
In my painting, I allow my hands to move intuitively on the canvas creating shapes and textures that feel right. I repeat patterns and choose colors from somewhere beyond my thinking mind. I am very inspired by the repeating patterns I see in nature. Plants and animals move me a great deal.
I also created an art car called “Opal Moonstone” that is intricate patterns of Rhinestone that I hand crafted over the last 3 years. I was recently interviewed about my Multi Media Art by Seattle Magazine:
https://seattlemag.com/seattle-culture/seattle-artifact/the-performance-art-of-goddess-kring/
Several of my Poems have been recorded into music with Interactive Jack Records Seattle and can ve listened to here:
I am taping into my unconscious and go into a dream like state when I create art. My visual art music and poetry and video monologues are include an improvisational stream of consciousness that weaves it all together in one cohesive body of creative expression.
I was also interviewed recently on this podcast “something rather than nothing”
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ZHOesfpcZxH53BaN6y88X
dreaming about making the Goddess KRING movie and publishing more books and music i create , multi media art full throttle, modeling for myself and others also!
Goddess KRING on Something Rather than Nothing Podcast!
Kringonian Pizzazz: KringSPEAK Poetry Goddess KRING Paperback
Shannon Kringen reads part 2 of her poetry book.
KringSPEAK poetry by Shannon Kringen Goddess KRING improvisational
multi media artist. musical spoken word poetry i write as it flows into
my brain. inspired by songwriters and nature. the last four poems are my
dad Gus Kringen's folk song lyrics he wrote. we are both poetic writers
who love music very deeply.
I am neurodivergent and see shapes
when I hear music SYNESTHESIA is part of my reality. (“Synesthesia is
when your brain routes sensory information through multiple unrelated
senses, causing you to experience more than one sense simultaneously.
Some examples include tasting words or linking colors to numbers and
letters. my poems are visual and musical as well as written words.
double and triple entendres...paradox rocks!
This book available here:
https://a.co/d/hsQwlID
some of the poems in this book have been turned into songs:
music by Shannon Kringen Goddess KRING and Supaflower from Interactive Jack Records here:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/goddesskring/kringflower-produced-by-supaflower
https://interactivejack.com/
https://goddesskring.bandcamp.com/
Youtube Music:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k416dbl2Nhrj_6m4cQsZpK8ZrpsWHtr8k&feature=shared
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0tM6dmm5N45ClzOxGvVXRK?si=TxzIfCrMSfS40AZEu8oX8Q
Itunes/Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/kringflower-produced-by-supaflower/1751481533
Amazon Music:
https://amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0D6QL7TDP?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_z536vKTQVknpHT2xw6aJtv0cK
Pandora Music:
https://www.pandora.com/artist/goddess-kring/kringflower-produced-by-supaflower/AL6p6Zrkrvtp7KP
Deezer Music:
https://www.deezer.com/us/album/601118592
iHeartRadio Music:
https://www.iheart.com/artist/goddess-kring-43310516/albums/kringflower-produced-by-supaflower-273886937/
Flotsam River Circus Tour Ohio River with Jason Webley and crew
a magical message from musician and river circus performer Jason Webley. spread the word if you live near the Ohio River! they are touring 1,000 miles down the river! Flotsam River Circus. here is a collage i made of photos i took connected to this event. http://www.rivercircus.com
the next art car event i am part of: Wednesday, August 14 7pm SeaScare and Porch Light Parade - City of Brier (14 miles north of Seattle Brier Rd, Brier, WA 98036) https://seascare.com/
https://lakecitysummerfest.com me and opal moonstone will be here! Opal Moonstone by Seattle experimental artist Shannon Kringen otherwise known as Goddess KRING from public access tv recently featured in Seattle Magazine ! "the story of Goddess Kring" art car theme song now streaming online look for it! 3 years of rhinestone glue-ing to make this Honda Fit sparkle all done by hand! inspired by shapes in nature! LAKE CITY SUMMER FESTIVAL & PARADE 2024
SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2024
Starting at 10:30am
NORTHEAST SEATTLE’S FAVORITE TRADITION!
FREE AND FUN FOR EVERYONE!
On NE 125th St between 25th Ave NE and Lake City Way NE.
24 food trucks, 100 craft artisans, community service organizations, a massive Family Fun Zone with free face-painting, Car Show, Touch-a-Truck, and The Grandstand Stage featuring SubPop artist Shina Shepherd, dance crew Massive Monkees, and more music all day.
In the evening, three Parades to crown the night.
Chaos erase or chaos part of Grace. Things falling apart to the point where people want to be rescued and feel safe
Policing of thoughts sponsored by no one beta testers wanted open to the clean slate debate the polarization state skateaway to the freedom of thought, the freedom of action
3 “de-bait the polar landscape”
soak through subconscious
soaking through subconscious..
seeing through the teleprompter
teleprompter in the romper room for adults
loaded code Hail the Pyrenees.
destabilization of world live on camera!
lights camera action can't get no satisfaction.
Switch the flip to make a short story long...
Shanologue pay the puppets acting stage! Prompt the teller
flaked snow
media diet, why lie it? light it up to creative kindling ash
unreality tele-vis-ione visual distractions from what gives up satisfaction
gaining traction
away skate to free forms of living
De- bait debate shut that gate jump in a cool refreshing lake
Clearly String theory
Couldn't qualify for the verify you say?
Fluidity rigidity stupidity keep dreaming baby
Hire the humidity with humility
Dreary mirror needs cleaning
Put your beanie on keep dreaming
Gaining light, a healthy flight for freedom and embracing Grace moonshone face.
Spiral staircase awaits.
Sponsored soured by hands tricking lands would rather have the ampersand in the standing room only
Discard baloney trick out the pony
Diving deep with abalone
Escape de-bait the Polar landscape3 “de-bait the polar landscape”
soak through subconscious
soaking through subconscious..
seeing through the teleprompter
teleprompter in the romper room for adults
loaded code Hail the Pyrenees.
destabilization of world live on camera!
lights camera action can't get no satisfaction.
Switch the flip to make a short story long...
Shanologue pay the puppets acting stage! Prompt the teller
flaked snow
media diet, why lie it? light it up to creative kindling ash
unreality tele-vis-ione visual distractions from what gives up satisfaction
gaining traction
away skate to free forms of living
De- bait debate shut that gate jump in a cool refreshing lake
Clearly String theory
Couldn't qualify for the verify you say?
Fluidity rigidity stupidity keep dreaming baby
Hire the humidity with humility
Dreary mirror needs cleaning
Put your beanie on keep dreaming
Gaining light, a healthy flight for freedom and embracing Grace moonshone face.
Spiral staircase awaits.
Sponsored soured by hands tricking lands would rather have the ampersand in the standing room only
Discard baloney trick out the pony
Diving deep with abalone
Escape de-bait the Polar landscape3 “de-bait the polar landscape”
soak through subconscious
soaking through subconscious..
seeing through the teleprompter
teleprompter in the romper room for adults
loaded code Hail the Pyrenees.
destabilization of world live on camera!
lights camera action can't get no satisfaction.
Switch the flip to make a short story long...
Shanologue pay the puppets acting stage! Prompt the teller
flaked snow
media diet, why lie it? light it up to creative kindling ash
unreality tele-vis-ione visual distractions from what gives up satisfaction
gaining traction
away skate to free forms of living
De- bait debate shut that gate jump in a cool refreshing lake
Clearly String theory
Couldn't qualify for the verify you say?
Fluidity rigidity stupidity keep dreaming baby
Hire the humidity with humility
Dreary mirror needs cleaning
Put your beanie on keep dreaming
Gaining light, a healthy flight for freedom and embracing Grace moonshone face.
Spiral staircase awaits.
Sponsored soured by hands tricking lands would rather have the ampersand in the standing room only
Discard baloney trick out the pony
Diving deep with abalone
Escape de-bait the Polar landscape
Washed brain dancing between smokey mirrored stream of main street vortex conformity club disguised as true north seeking. Pavlov's doggie daycare is filled to the brim. Devoured by Sweet n sour longing to belong ever so long in the throngs of planted meat eeee ahhhhh passifying masses props of grandeur distracted by the deer in headlights feeling light as steel...
Luciferous gloom in the room. Loving the Doom. The velvet black spider fur thrills me and chills me to the bone in the most delicious way swaying and swooning under the dark Moonwater with dracule and rocks shattering lanterns
Reveling in the devil energy revealing the deep dark damp cavern the dripping Echo of waxy extinguished lamps clamped 100 Miles down below the Earth smashing the glass lighting the fire under the water riffic terrific luciferan creamy dream dark and mean stomp the beam dirty not clean steamy hot trance
Envelope our wet noses oiling roses scented pungent
Hot and sour girls sweet and sour girl. A little unsure of herself
sponsored by no one fill in the blank need beta testers or maybe court jesters
Goddess KRING art car at two events this weekend
i will be part of this event tomorrow night- Seattle, WA: Hot Off the Press Book Fair at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery July 13 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
1201 S Vale St
Seattle, WA 98108
United States
https://blog.fantagraphics.com/events/seattle-wa-hot-off-the-press-book-fair-at-the-fantagraphics-bookstore-gallery/
seattle friends come say hello to me and my art car at Wedgwood Art Festival July 12 and 13th http://wedgwoodfestival.com/art-cars.html
Event location:
Outdoor Playground
Our Lady of the Lake
3544 NE 89th St
Just like I have my flickr photos "ShannonKringen" available to publish under creative commons, we would like to have our music "Goddess KRING KringFlowers music" (on most platforms now- just search) available to use for things under a similar kind of creative commons. Just give us credit for the music and link back to us ...if people want to use our music for any kind of movie or video or photo project as the sound. Many of my photos have been published from my Flickr feed on PBS and Bill Moyers BuzzFeed and different national and local websites. Would love it if our music could be useful to people in a similar way and be published and used in other places aside from our own that we generate! Opening doors
as cheesy as the title sounds this is very helpful in building better relationships/sense of community= "re-lation-ship" with others both personal and professional! especially in being an artist and seeing your work as being useful to others "How To Win Friends And Influence People Audiobook"
Shannon Kringen Publishes New Book of Poetry
Posted by Antioch University https://commonthread.antioch.edu/notes/shannon-kringen-publishes-new-book-of-poetry/
Basically I just feel like I need to be my whole self which is dark and light positive and negative multifaceted full of contradictions a little bit introvert a little bit extrovert a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll a little bit friendly and a little bit antisocial. I guess all of it is the real me a little bit Moody a little bit friendly, etc. Definitely an omnivore wanting to eat both plants and animals. Not trying to save the world but a little bit hero and a little bit villain. Maybe both at the same time simultaneously!
Hello from Bothell Washington near Seattle for the 4th of July parade where I drove my art car "Opal Moonstone" through the streets and waved at everybody
I have a portable table with black cover that I can bring to the events to show the public and sell my art book, poetry book, paintings, greeting cards, postcards, etc
thanks for the book reviews on my Kringonian Pizzazz poetry book! Larsen says
seaweed in my teeth! oops! testing out Sony Handycam CX405 Goddess KRING walks in the forest and talks https://youtu.be/ENsF3WdI7Wg?feature=shared
Just recorded a new monologue about my ideas on my current life and all my creative projects and the desire to create a full-length feature documentary film about my public access TV show and current art "Goddess Kring" and debating on if me and my friends can do it or if we need to get a production company involved so that we can make a high quality, viable, interesting documentary that is professionally done and well done technically as well as obviously having a great story, a compelling and entertaining story for the public, etc. For real in a pragmatic diligent way
https://youtu.be/M_WIhbr73fU?feature=shared
"pragmatic" dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
"a pragmatic approach to publishing and sharing my art and music with the public"
https://youtu.be/dAA2MA5EWY4
new playlist! dance videos by Goddess KRING https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9Rkc9_Heo86aA0Ud880tv6pm8gAkO5wR
we had a great trip! thanks for your support. i just made a new youtube video about it and will share more photos and videos and words on this trip experience! our road trip from seattle, to nampa idaho, lehi utah, loveland and fort collins colorado, amarillo texas, houston texas, waxahachie texas, bisbee arizona, easton wyoming, random small towns in new mexico, las vegas nevada, and twin falls idaho back to seattle! 4600 miles in 17 days! whew! my 2010 honda fit sport art car "opal moonstone" did amazing! i am so grateful to all the nice people who supported us and cheered us on! it was quite an effort driving 8 hours a day but worth it! you can still donate if you want and the money will go towards paying for the food and air bnb we stayed in etc. getting my oil changed on my car today etc. my car did amazing! my youtube is 'shannonkringen' dave flowers and me are also recording a new song about our road trip! find it on bandcamp "goddess kring" AND "interactive jack records" seattle! thanks. you can also support our art by buying my poetry book "kringonian pizzazz"
we had a great trip! thanks for your support. i just made a new youtube video about it and will share more photos and videos and words on this trip experience! our road trip from seattle, to nampa idaho, lehi utah, loveland and fort collins colorado, amarillo texas, houston texas, waxahachie texas, bisbee arizona, easton wyoming, random small towns in new mexico, las vegas nevada, and twin falls idaho back to seattle! 4600 miles in 17 days! whew! my 2010 honda fit sport art car "opal moonstone" did amazing! i am so grateful to all the nice people who supported us and cheered us on! it was quite an effort driving 8 hours a day but worth it! you can still donate if you want and the money will go towards paying for the food and air bnb we stayed in etc. getting my oil changed on my car today etc. my car did amazing! my youtube is 'shannonkringen' dave flowers and me are also recording a new song about our road trip! find it on bandcamp "goddess kring" AND "interactive jack records" seattle! thanks. you can also support our art by buying my poetry book "kringonian pizzazz"
seattle to houston and back! 17 day trip. 4600 miles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in my art car Opal Moonstone
the Grackle Birds fascinate me! i guess locals in Texas find them annoying but i like them!
I am at Elliott Bay Bookstore on Capitol Hill Seattle and it feels so good to see a magazine for sale in this establishment that has an article about my art in it! this is amazing! this is a dream come true! and it's so validating and so exciting and so fun and I'm hoping a whole bunch of people read the article and feel inspired by it in some positive way!!!! Thanks Brad Holden for interviewing me about being part of Seattle history I am completely thrilled and honored and happy to be part of this project of expression!!!! We are finishing our music CD tomorrow and we're releasing the "Kring Flowers" original song CD and in conjunction with my poetry book "Kringonian Pizzazz" and my trip to Houston Texas for the Art Car festival and parade! I just want to promote all of it and just share it with whoever is interested in my creative projects! please spread the word anyone reading this that is interested or if you have friends or family that are interested! I love to connect with the community that's larger than myself through all of my art and music projects and my art modeling as well and my pet sitting in dog walking all of it is connected! Thanks
hey interlacing geranium painting titanium clean slate island beyond rocky paradox curling locks realizing the hawks are taking stock of what humans do due to earths equanimous multi dimensional shadow spell fukishima dwell swell to wave swelling melon cave are you brave? flying turquoise painted bodies head to toe in the amber glow of knowing the show must go on the show must go on the show must go on unwind the tide lighting in line sillouetted time mining creative minds lining torso divine gluten freed cleared of fog in mind brain shedding long ago skins for a window of play no longer delayed instead displaying full spectrum chroma full spectrum chroma full spectrum chroma soaking in aromas sensing serendipity road less traveled indeed water seed sprouting rerouting encountering collaboration adoration elated by the vast ship of friend ship what a trip! dipping into the golden retrieved life dipping into the golden retrieved life dipping into the golden retrieved life collaboration adoration elated by the vast ship of friend ship what a trip! dipping into the golden retrieved life dipping into the golden retrieved life dipping into the golden retrieved life
being on the neurodivergent spectrum and navigating life as a full time free lance 1. art model, 2. medical model, "standardized patient" 3. dog walker/pet sitter/cat sitter 4. freelance artist/shoepainter/hire me to perform music/spoken word/act/etc. random improv fun multi media whatever floats our boats, art car parades etc. earning money in tons of freelance ways while i publish my art freely mostly but i do have 2 members only websites that earn me some money mostly i earn money with art and medical modeling and pet sitting. dog walking etc. and i share my art for free! i am proud that many of my photos from flickr have been published on national websites. and seattle magazine recently interviewed me and theres a profile of "Goddess KRING" coming out in march 2024. have been interviewed many times by various people and i enjoy this kind of communication! thanks everyone who is supportive! hope to inspire you to do whatever you LOVE!
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