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

Goddess KRING live at Kent Cider & Ale Trail March 7th 2025--in Cycle Th...

Goddess KRING live at Kent Cider & Ale Trail March 7th 2025--in Cycle Therapy Bike Shop

https://youtu.be/p4rUF0NbgZQ?feature=shared

art show seattle tonight march 1st 2025 goddess kring

 tonight i show art in seattle! Shannon Nicole Kringen showing her visual art piece:
"Print Me"
at A/NT Gallery
305 Harrison St.,
Seattle, WA 98109
opening night Saturday March 1st 2025 5-8pm
more info: https://www.antgallery.org
Shannon Kringen (Goddess KRING) featured in Seattle Magazine with her art car Opal Moonstone also known as a figure model and public access tv show creator- one woman performance art- improvisational monologue/poetry/body paint etc, with two art books published "Art, Identity and the Sacred" and "Kringonian Pizzazz" poetry and visual art. A complex multi media visual artist/also now creating original music with her poetry and vocals at Interactive Jack Records Seattle. "KringFlower" album now streaming.
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/goddesskring/kringflower-produced-by-supaflower

 

Goddess KRING live Kent, WA March 7th 2025

 

the music of Goddess KRING

the band for March 7th 2025 show: Shannon Kringen Vocals and Lyrics Supaflower- Keyboards Nibby Nebulous- Electric Guitar Jon Gilmore Jr. - drums

Performing Original Music lyrics by Shannon Kringen/Music by Dave Flowers Interactive Jack Records Seattle.

Goddess Kring is releasing a new music Album "KringFlower" on interactive jack records in collaboration with producer and musician, Supaflower. It covers 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. The jazzy track is delightful and whimsical. Genre: Pop, New Wave, Rock Influences: Tom Petty, Blondie, Talking Heads, Pretenders

Goddess KRING singing live original songs with a band

Saturday March 7th 5-9pm

Kent Cider & Ale Trail

(several locations with wine and live music)

our stage is here:

Cycle Therapy Bike Shop

215 W. Meeker

Kent, WA 98032

more info on this event: https://www.downtownkentwa.com/event/kent-cider-ale-trail/

 

thoughts of shannon kringen

 

I've probably said this before I tend to be repetitive but here it is again! My first memory of wanting to be a performer or some kind of person that is in the public eye or that shares with an audience is seeing shirely temple on TV when I was a little kid and wanting to kind of emulate her wanting to sing and dance and act and sort of do show and tell the thing is I was very shy as a little kid but I had this secret fantasy that I could get a microphone and have my own like show and so I guess even as like a three or four or five year old I dreamed of showbiz and it wasn't until my twenties that I got my public access TV show that I literally did have my own TV show and I'm still sort of trying to dip my toes into the performing arts world with acting and singing and recording music and performing live and I guess art modeling for the last 33 years has also given me a taste of what it is to be on the model platform in front of students who draw I think of them like an audience but they're really I guess being an art model isn't really the same as being an actor but when I'm up there on the model stand I feel like an actor or I guess I fantasize that this is my starting off point of jumping off the diving board into literal acting and like saying words or singing or dancing in front of an audience and then when I'm in the Fremont summer solstice parade in Seattle on my bicycle and when I'm in the art car parades waving at people I feel like that's me being a performer I guess for some reason sometimes I'm just unaware of this and then I suddenly realize wait a minute not everybody wants to do all the things that I'm doing and I need to give myself credit for the courage it takes to do all the things I've done even though I'm a little shy but then I've heard other actors and singers and dancers and performers talk about the fact that they're kind of shy in a regular social way and yet they love being on stage or recording themselves or being photographed and that definitely fits my personality as well sort of an introverted extrovert or a slightly shy performer

I'm so grateful I just had a delightful time portrait modeling for some artists and when I told them that I do music and poetry and I have an art car and I used to do public access TV show they were fascinated by it as they were drawing me and painting the shapes of the planes of my face and talking about my bone structure and they were curious about my Norwegian heritage and trying to figure out how to draw and paint my features and it was so refreshing to be able to share my poetry book and the Seattle magazine article about me and show a link to my music they're going to check it out and they appreciated me sharing it so instead of interpreting me as narcissistic they interpreted me as an interesting person that was sharing with them so that is so refreshing when people are open to hearing about my creativity… They say it helps them draw me to know a little bit more about my personality…