2 new collages by Shannon Kringen Visual Artist, poet and model

 

2 new collages. my abstract paintings and our music show promo! Designs by Shannon Kringen: http://www.shannonkringen.com/designs.htm The Event Goddess KRING and Supaflower are performing original music at. Saturday Sept. 21st. Tolt-MacDonald Park & Campground

Address: 31020 NE 40th St, Carnation, WA 98014.

You are invited to join the Cascadian Cultures Congress for an afternoon of sights, sounds, and sustenance including, but not limited to: music, visual art, and other various experiments with adorning the twilight tapestry that runs between the Luminiferous Æther and the continuum we call Timespace this 21st of September, improvised sound experiments and an open PA for any musician or performance 12pm-2pm (first come first serve) and live bands 2pm - 7pm

All are welcome!

Gage Academy of Art Grand Opening Seattle SLU

 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/

 

bodysuit dance for cactus hugger song!

waldorf salad poem

2 new playlists with my poetry

 

2 newest playlists- My poetry and audio book https://www.youtube.com/@shannonkringen/playlists

Something Rather Than Nothing Podcast Shannon Kringen

Something Rather Than Nothing Podcast Shannon Kringen

new poetry to my bio

 

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:

https://interactivejack.com/

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

Shannon's Ramble 09-01-24 poetry music update

posterized dog walk with Goddess KRING

current art car life of shannon kringen goddess kring

bubbles and keys

Shannon Nicole Kringen Thoughts Goddess KRING

 

Shannon Nicole Kringen thoughts Goddess KRING

Here's my stream of consciousness essay for today and I know that a lot of people find me annoying but this is the way that I express myself so take it or leave it. Good luck to everyone ! I like to say be yourself no matter what they say. That's from a sting song I love called Englishman in New York ... Really wanting to figure out how to organize my photos and my videos and all my projects that I'm doing. Music, poetry, photos, videos, pet sitting, art modeling all of it, my artwork and all the things that I do for a living. I just kind of surf all these different waves and I guess that's my style. So maybe I should make a documentary film. Just documenting the random chaosness of my life. I don't know if I can really put together a linear story very well. Probably going to have to find other people that want to make a film with me, but the classic Goddess Kring style of making a movie would be to do it in my own strange improv chaos way!? And maybe the way that I share online already is me documenting my life and like my whole life is like an ongoing show and tell documentary anyway. But I do like the idea of actually trying to tell a story in a filmmaking way and make it a feature length with its own original music score and make one that's good enough to submit to film festivals and or screen in Seattle in a theater that I would rent. The Northwest film Forum has a theater that people can rent. Maybe there's other options as well. Would be cool to have a visual art show and a movie screening and share Multimedia creativity that I do. It would be interesting to have a show of my visual art and videos in a movie on my art car and then fill up an entire room of paintings and drawings that artists have done of me over the years like the finished fine art pieces that have been made in my likeness to show my work as an art model because I've been modeling since 1992. Although I'm doing less of that now and more of taking care of pets right now and also work with medical students as a standardized patient. Kind of trying to tell the story of my life in a linear way might be a challenge, especially for someone like me that has total improv chaos brain. I also like the idea of having other people interview me who like my show or like my art and interview me or I interview them about how my art affected them because my TV show it was mostly just me doing monologues by myself solo. So I was thinking that a departure from that would be to involve other people more and have dialogues or interviews with other people whether they interview me or I interview them just to kind of expand on the whole concept of the communication of me and the way I see the world and wanting to share some of my way of seeing the world with other people. I am on the autism spectrum officially in terms of mainstream psychological assessments. I don't always buy into all of that, but I have officially gone through testing and assessing of the way my brain works and they say I am on the autism spectrum. Of course it's not an exact science. Nothing much is these days, but it's good to know that my brain is unusual in some ways and I have a way of processing information that is usually not in chronological order and I have a poor working memory supposedly. But I think some of my neurodivergent traits actually serve me well in my art. I think the fact that I can do improv art. The way that I can is partly because my brain is non-linear and I see patterns and connect dots in my own kind of way and maybe this helps me create a unique style of art and poetry and music and painting and photography etc. So maybe if I do a movie I should just go with my strange style? My eccentric non-linear non-chronological order random chaos order. That's my style but I would like to actually tell a story with a beginning a middle and an end and that would be interesting and compelling and engaging the audience. But I guess what I really need to do is create something that I think is interesting that I love and trust that there's an audience out there for that. And if not, if it's completely not connecting with an audience, at least I will know that. I really am an eccentric person that doesn't quite know how to connect with an audience. And maybe that's okay too because every single person is totally unique and that's a literal fact. And maybe that's totally fine. We're all here together and yet we're all completely different at the same time.

I guess my main projects right now are work on making a film. A documentary about my life and my public access show. Write a memoir kind of book autobiography, creative book and keep working on music- basically keep writing poetry and publishing that and then turn it into music with Dave Flowers and modeling and photography and painting in my abstract style. I'm just making it up as I go. Maybe having goals. It doesn't even matter. Maybe just keep the free form improv going and just create as much as I can for my entire life and that is my purpose perhaps and share it with whoever wants to see it and learn as I go. I'm open to whatever interesting opportunities come my way and collaborating with other people on these multimedia projects. It does seem like my best work is mostly solo, but I have collaborated with some great artists when I model and the music I'm doing right now is a huge collaboration with another person and that is maybe a new thing for me to really collaborate well with another person. Maybe that's my autism where I work best by myself and that gets interpreted as a form of narcissism by some people and yet I feel most comfortable when I work. Mostly alone. And yet I do long to connect and collaborate with others. But only if I can really use my talent to the best of my ability and not feel like I'm watering it down or something or getting all shy and clamming up around other people. That's part of why I like to work alone because I'm not shy when I'm by myself. But when I work with other people I get like I'm a clan that's hiding in her shell and I don't know why I do that but I'm just really sensitive in a certain way and I need to relax and Bloom like a flower. Basically when I do the best art that I can do, I think that's way it seems anyway. And then people tell me don't overthink it but I love to think!

https://linktr.ee/goddesskring

dreaming Goddess KRING

 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!

where can i hear goddess kring music?

 

where can i hear Goddess KRING music? KringFLOWERS Music LP 11 original songs:

Music AND mixing by Dave Flowers Interactive Jack Records Seattle ,

Vocals and Lyrics by Shannon Kringen "Goddess KRING"

Listen to our original music on many platoforms (CD's also available just ask)

Distrokid Link List

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

Interactive Jack Records

https://www.interactivejack.com

Bandcamp

https://goddesskring.bandcamp.com/album/kringflowers-music

Youtube Music

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k416dbl2Nhrj_6m4cQsZpK8ZrpsWHtr8k

Spotify Music

https://open.spotify.com/album/0tM6dmm5N45ClzOxGvVXRK?si=8MzZuWrzSPmDY1PgpiPExQ

Apple Music

https://music.apple.com/us/album/kringflower-produced-by-supaflower/1751481533

Amazon Music Player

https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0D6QL7TDP?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_iMEFs2dAeAvdOTGjqc29dSvnj

Amazon Music

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D6QL7TDP

Pandora Music

https://www.pandora.com/artist/goddess-kring/kringflower-produced-by-supaflower/AL6p6Zrkrvtp7KP

Deezer Music

https://www.deezer.com/us/album/601118592

iheart Radio Music

https://www.iheart.com/artist/goddess-kring-43310516/albums/kringflower-produced-by-supaflower-273886937/

Goddess KRING Lyrics on Boom Play

https://www.boomplay.com/lyrics/170698460

1 Only Child (featuring Jon Gilmore) 4:51

2 Monkey Wrench 4:33

3 Cancel Culture Vultures 4:30

4 Jazmint 4:27

5 Banana Split 4:08

6 UFO Camera 4:10

7 New Years Revolution 3:11

8 Dumpster Diving Boots 5:47

9 The Story Of Goddess Kring 4:42

10 Ripple Effect (poem) 1:59

11 Slow Down (duet with father Gus Kringen from 1984 cassette) 4:15

11 Tracks - Total Play Time: 46:33

Goddess KRING on Something Rather than Nothing Podcast!

 

Goddess KRING on Something Rather than Nothing Podcast!
I was a guest on "Something rather than nothing" podcast - in the can- published soon ! I just had an absolutely delightful conversation about my art on a podcast that's going to be released sometime around Labor Day. I'm so excited! I think we talked for about an hour about all the different kinds of art I do and My philosophy about it. It was a fascinating conversation and I'm so grateful! When we started talking, I was really stressed out because I had kind of a conflicting situation with a couple different people and was feeling upset about the polarization in the world and now I feel much better because I had a refreshing open-ended conversation where I felt free to just share my views and me and the other person had a very diplomatic open-minded conversation about mostly about art and philosophy in a really intuitive improvisational natural kind of way, not in a formal dogmatic way! https://www.somethingratherthannothing.com/episodes

Audiobook Read by the Author Kringonian Pizzazz part2

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/

KringFlower (produced by Supaflower)

Flotsam River Circus Tour Ohio River with Jason Webley and crew

 

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

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

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