animals i care for

 

I'm helping take care of three cats and two dogs right now and I love all these animals but I admit it's nice to kind of just focus on my cat for a little while right now while I juggle taking care of all the other animals

beautiful painting of me by Amy Scherer. https://amyspaintings.com/

 beautiful painting of me by Amy Scherer. https://amyspaintings.com/

Art Model Shannon Kringen
http://www.shannonkringen.com/figuremodel.htm

fun videos by me

 upupup inc. georgetown seattle equinox studio show 07-31-21
https://youtu.be/gcWPmcZhVAE

upupup calicope farm 08-01-21
https://youtu.be/Ya4a7aGnN8s

more info on up up up inc.
http://www.upupupinc.com/
https://www.instagram.com/upupupinc/

more of my art
http://www.shannonkringen.com/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/
https://www.patreon.com/goddesskring
https://www.instagram.com/goddesskring/
https://www.youtube.com/user/shannonkringen
https://goddesskring.bandcamp.com/
http://www.shannonkringen.com/podcast.htm
https://www.mixcloud.com/goddesskring/
Life of shannon Kringen
Shannon Kringen
https://anchor.fm/shannon-kringen

short clip of UP UP UP inc. Seattle Georgetown show 07-31-21

Up up up incorporated circus crane show is playing August 1st in Olympia Washington they are really really talented like... it's a free donations accepted show but it's like seeing a $30 show.... it's really high quality professional... really funny! really their athletically very gifted acrobatic performers... they're very funny... they play live music... it's really really a solidly well done show truly! If you like acrobatic performance and you like fun old-timey tuba horns piano drums funky music and slapstick comedy you will love it. There's a cast of seven and they all have really good comedic timing and they're all really good performers and really nice people. A true blessing to humanity... Their mission is to spread around positive energy and joy and fun creative positive life-affirming energy

i am editing videos and photos now i took of UP UP UP inc show last night!

will share photos here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/

and video here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/shannonkringen 

shannon kringen underwater madison park day

up up up inc everett, wa 07-23-21

http://www.upupupinc.com/  a real treat!  Here is up up up Inc on July 23rd in Everett Washington....I'm excited to film them again Saturday July 31st in Seattle at equinox studios 7pm. "UP UP UP Inc." http://www.upupupinc.com #upupupinc #upupupinctour2021cast
https://youtu.be/7cmaOCsVuuw

current thoughts

 enjoying the self censorship training? ha ha not me but finding creative ways to stay authentic

Grazing animals fertilize the earth when they're rotated through crops or land areas  in the proper way... By not overgrazing them and not undergrazing them rotating them Allan Savory talks about this and there's a huge farm that does this in Georgia called White Oak pastures I really admire these people.


Allan Savory Presenting at Harvard Law School
https://youtu.be/aFAEq6mCtL4

a video of a talk that he did in comments....Just rediscovered a guy named Allan Savory he's from Zimbabwe and he has a whole philosophy about how we can regreenify the Earth and slow down the desertification of the Earth and it's through using livestock to fertilize the Earth and we greenify it he's an ecologist and a livestock farmer and more and I agree with his ideas instead of thinking everyone should stop eating animals you should use plants and animals in a different way the way nature works best which is to regenerate the soil through regenerative agriculture etc it's very multifaceted and it makes a lot of sense to me and it's completely different than how we do both plant and animal agriculture right now with mono crops and hideous chemicals etc this is going back to Nature and back to working with nature in the way that it naturally works its best which is manure plants animals the whole ecosystem rotating the crops the diversity the micro organisms etc he's done countless lectures online on video I'm listening to one right now

A word is dead when it is said some say,. I say it just begins to live that day.... Emily Dickinson

I used to watch The Carol Burnett show growing up a very funny comedy show for those of you who don't know and one of the acrobats that performs with the up up up incorporated circus crane show is so funny.... Her facial expressions are really exaggerated and over the top slapstick comedy humor mixed with fun funky live music that they sing and perform mixed with their really really high quality skills as acrobats they are really talented!  Just some other humor is really goofy slapstick humor and their facial expressions are really dramatic and one acrobatic performer in particular reminds me of Carol Burnett she's very funny she is amazing comedic timing or whatever you call it.... And again they perform this Saturday July 31st 7pm  in Seattle at the equinox studios in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle that's sort of the industrial part of town near 4th Avenue South.  All of the performers male and female are quite talented there was just one in particular and I don't know her name but she reminded me of Carol Burnett in terms of her comedic timing and her facial expressions and she's also a very good acrobat spinning and doing beautiful graceful routines hanging from the crane it's pretty great and a bunch of the performers are great they're all great really there's men and women and they're all a little bit different and funny and seriously good athletic acrobatic artistic performers the show is really multifaceted.  The show is free and then you donate what you want at the end

here's one of the few photos I took with my phone I have some better pictures I took with my other camera.... I just haven't had the energy to upload them yet but this Saturday I'm planned to do better photos and videos of these performers and share they are really really talented performers and their show is very funny and uplifting and cheerful!  this Saturday night July 31st at 7:00 p.m. in Seattle's Georgetown equinox studios- I highly recommend this to my Seattle art loving friends:  the  up up up show is amazing!   I saw it a few days ago in Everett with Jason Webley opening for them... it's great.   I plan to be there I might make some videos of it!

<img src="https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/shannonkringen/2214/629968/629968_600.jpg" alt="" title="">
http://www.upupupinc.com/

up up up inc! they are great! i am going to see them live again tomorrow night in seattle.  http://www.upupupinc.com/

updating my sites too:

http://www.shannonkringen.com/
https://www.patreon.com/goddesskring
https://www.youtube.com/user/shannonkringen
https://www.instagram.com/goddesskring/
https://www.mixcloud.com/goddesskring/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/

draw me today!

 

today: Draw me "Art Model Shannon Kringen" online Friday July 23rd 11am-2pm PST (1-4pm Central time, 2-5pm Eastern time)

in a private zoom session. sliding scale fee. share your email with me in comments and i can send you an invite and more details

Childhood neglect memories triggered by fun aRt group event! complicated...

one of my wounds from childhood is feeling ashamed i was even born. thats pretty awful and it's reared its head again recently. just did this video monologue about it which helped me feel better and more "valid" in my own skin. Childhood neglect memories triggered by fun aRt group event! complicated feelings by Goddess KRING

Childhood neglect memories triggered by fun aRt group event! complicated feelings by Goddess KRING

 one of my wounds from childhood is feeling ashamed i was even born.  thats pretty awful and it's reared its head again recently.  just did a video monologue about it which helped me feel better and more "valid" in my own skin

childhood neglect is invisible but it's still having an effect on me.  wish i had a higher self esteem and it's not helpful when others accuse me of being too 'into myself'  i feel like i ABANDON myself and this triggers anger. but mainly it's ME that is mean to me! and thinks it's "selfish" to do self care etc. and put me first.

video monologue uploading here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/shannonkringen

Childhood neglect memories triggered by fun aRt group event! complicated feelings by Goddess KRING

Draw Art Model Shannon Kringen Friday July 23rd 2021

 Draw me "Art Model Shannon Kringen" online Friday July 23rd  11am-2pm PST  (1-4pm Central time,  2-5pm Eastern time)
in a private zoom session.  sliding scale fee.  share your email with me in comments and i can send you an invite and more details.

Art Model Shannon Nicole Kringen as "Helga"

 

Art Model Shannon Nicole Kringen as "Helga"

self portrait from 2017...i was playing "Helga" for a modeling gig! Seattle Art Museum. Andrew Wyeth exhibit for Gage Academy of Fine Art who was working with the SAM in Seattle...tomorrow i will be modeling online for a group 11am 2pm pst and braiding my hair and mimicking a Helga poses etc.  if you want to draw me online let me know i can send an invite thanks.  http://www.shannonkringen.com/figuremodel.htm

updated my #anchor #podcast Life of Shannon Kringen

 I finally recorded something again! it's been a few months since I recorded anything! In this monologue I talk about my technique of decorating my art car opal moonstone! As a designer I'm very improvisational and intuitive and I'm influenced by lots of different cultures and art but I mostly just follow my own instincts

updated my #anchor #podcast Life of Shannon Kringen

https://anchor.fm/shannon-kringen/episodes/aRt-car-show--Opal-Moonstone-by-Shannon-Kringen-e14da2j?fbclid=IwAR1CiSN-b8vs48R23223_TrZqlH6Nvd2fbWW6MSw-0XPXHtvxL6o_u3B7JU

Opal Moonstone aRt car by Shannon Kringen

 come see my aRt car i call "Opal Moonstone" this weekend: ART CARnival SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2021 AT 11 AM–5 PM. Free Event · 640 Auto Blvd, Burlington, WA 98233-3700, United States

Opal Moonstone aRt car by me- so far, a long process! https://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/albums/72157719333137642

 

Opal Moonstone aRt car by me- so far, a long process! https://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/albums/72157719333137642

i am part of an aRt car show again! ART CARnival SATURDAY, JULY 17

 

i am part of an aRt car show again! ART CARnival  SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2021 AT 11 AM–5 PM. Free Event · 640 Auto Blvd, Burlington, WA 98233-3700, United States.  come see my "opal moonstone"  aRt car and all the other cool cars that will be there on display!  take photos etc

see more of my aRt car here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/albums

solitude!

 

solitude appreciated

Wondering if I’m just one of those people that needs a lot of solitude and just prefer Solitude or can I learn how to be with other people and feel more spacious with that other person like the boundaries are strong and I’m intact within myself because what I tend to feel like is a chameleon that is supposed to adapt to whoever the person I’m with is and I find this draining and I don’t know if that’s the other person’s that I hang out with that want me to do that or am I just choosing to be this way because I think I have to?  Like I want to take responsibility for myself care and have healthy boundaries with my friends but I know that it’s not always just me sometimes at the other person has boundary issues so it can’t always just be me so I want to figure out what’s healthy and then do more of that

create freely with an open mind if you want.

 create freely with an open mind if you want.

Someone else's post triggered me into saying this.. it seems like there's all kinds of weird automated things happening now and we're all being treated like children that need to be told and what opinions to have and  what to do and believe .... it's just creepy!   even when you're trying to leave somebody a comment and websites suggest comments that you can click on and it automatically types them for you... sort of discouraging people from using their own creativity and choosing their own words.   it's getting kind of weird..... Free speech,  creativity and imagination are not being encouraged.  Apparently  we're all supposed to act like robots and do as we are told!   to the point where I feel like going around saying to people " I am a robot I do as I am told I am a robot I do as I am told!!!!".  Sending good wishes to you and anyone reading this....


Making chili in my crock pot with 3 kinds of organic beans, onion,  garlic,  roasted and tomato paste, red peppers and grass-fed and finished ground beef....amazing how easy it is to make

some of my links- artist and art model shannon kringen.  
free range human being:
http://www.shannonkringen.com/
https://www.instagram.com/goddesskring/
https://www.patreon.com/goddesskring
https://www.youtube.com/user/shannonkringen
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/
https://www.mixcloud.com/goddesskring/
https://goddesskring.bandcamp.com/

self portrait art photos of shannon kringen available to work from

 self portrait art photos of shannon kringen available to paint and draw from.  

Very grateful and happy to share that a serious painter I've modeled for paid me for use of this image for a portrait class she is teaching.  What a validating compliment she found this image powerful.  I posted on mother's Day with a short essay on Instagram ....she found it there .... on my grief on this day.  It did not occur to me that this image would be useful for a portrait class!  I'm so pleasantly surprised.  Reminds me to keep expressing and valuing my contribution....

the little essay i wrote with this photo on mothers day that a painter appreciated and wanted to buy rights to use for a portrait class.   this is SO VALIDATING!  thank you to everyone who appreciates my expression- this encourages me to keep healing and helps me feel "connected"  and part of community.

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms. I almost became a mom but changed my mind in my twenties and now I'm 52 and I wonder what if but I'll never know so I have to just accept the choices I made that brought me to where I am now. And I've always mostly preferred Solitude anyway so now I guess I get my wish. I'm an only child of divorced parents and I never had kids. But I guess I'm a mom to my cat and my house plants and I'm trying to be a mom to myself. And I always tried to be a mom to my mom because she really didn't have much of a mom.

my self portraits available to draw and paint from, just donate  to me.  message me to arrange. thanks.

many more to choose from here:
"strong selfies"
https://flic.kr/s/aHsjYR56Qj
and here "exploring narcissism"
https://flic.kr/s/aHsjqrUFnU

to arrange a donation to me for use of my images in your art:
http://www.shannonkringen.com/contact.htm

my own intuitive observation: on the voyagers movie clip

 

my own intuitive observation:  on the voyagers movie clip

my own intuitive observation:  on the voyagers movie clip i just saw....seems to me humans are already losing their emotional connections and going the way of chemical bio tech and artificial intelligence and bio hacking human cells etc. creepy stuff really. going away from nature trying to control nature...thinking we need to find a new planet instead of actually regenerating the soil and eco system on  this one is creepy to me.  or thinking we need "chemicals" and to do frankenstein experiments with nature INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY WORKING WITH NATURE is so messed up.  humans do amazing things with "tech" but also do awful things.  BOTH.  i am more trusting of actual nature and biodiversity.  to "out smart" nature and "control it" is not a good idea.  but the wealthiest most powerful humans seem to want to go this way- this ties in with athiesm verses belief in "god" .  personally I AM NOT RELIGIOUS BUT I AM ALSO NOT AN ATHIEST.  TO ME NATURE IS THE CREATIVE FORCE THAT MAKES THIS UNIVERSE and humans are part of that.  i think it's very cartoon like to think you are either "religious" and believe or "superstition" or you are athiest and believe we can control nature and dominate it- and act as if science is LINEAR and computer generated math models of "reality" predict EXACT SCIENCE they are predictions not cut and dry answers that are solid.  i think albert einstein talked about the order AND chaos and how both are true not just one or the other.  there is mystery even in science.  it's not black and white.  listen to quantum physics ideas.  "Quantum physics is the study of matter and energy at its most fundamental level. A central tenet of quantum physics is that energy comes in indivisible packets called quanta. Quanta behave very differently to macroscopic matter: particles can behave like waves, and waves behave as though they are particles"  not sure how to fully explain my point but i am very intuitive and on a certain wave length that sees through the bullshit....and we humans are very powerful at "creating" different realities and working with BOTH order and CHAOS.