Dochtersions: Hello everybody! Under the name "dochtersions" I started, at the suggestion of my dear husband, in sharing my photos, fractals, and also some paintings, and other 2D art here at Renderosity. That was in January of 2010. I still use my two owls as avatar, which is a reduced image of one of my oil paintings.
The name "dochtersions" came into my head as only one, when I was looking for a name for my blog that I started in 2007.
This name is not that strange, as I know that God is my real father and mother at the same time, and I know that God loves me more and deeper than a man can aware of (or at least I think this way)
I live in the South of The Netherlands together with my retired husband. I've had various occupations. In my last job, I was working as an assistant to a paediatrician and a rehabilitation specialist. When I had children, I graduated "health awareness", and gave lectures on various topics, plus vegetarian cooking classes to teenagers.
My husband and I have together two daughters and four grandchildren. Which all live abroad, to be precise in Lacey (WA-USA) and Davos in Switzerland.
I've always been busy with all kinds of creativity. As a child I drew a lot, later pottery, needle art, tapestries, weaving, batik art, macramé, etc. Painting with oil was my last great hobby.
Around about the year 2000 I started having unexplained physical symptoms as well as insomnia, which was later diagnosed as having PTSD. It turned out that I had repressed a traumatized youth. However, the physical symptoms made that I no longer could be busy with my passions, the real painting, and other activities (f.e. reading books, gardening, travelling), which I was doing without a limit.
What I can stay doing well in limited form, is playing music on my mandolin and my guitar, and also to enjoy/listen my favourite music, which is including the cantatas of J.S. Bach and his sons , f.e. also music from G.F. Handel, G.Ph. Telemann, a.s.o. This is also the kind of music that my husband (on its church organ) and I (on my mandolin) play together.
After being diagnosed with PTSD a lot changed and I was forced to look for alternatives in which I could express myself. That is, that for years I started writing, and poetry, which go quite intense and as a sort of automatic. Unfortunately, my knowledge of the English language is not sufficient enough, so I write in my mother tongue, with sometimes a few exceptions. The thoughts come to my mind right at unexpected moments, and it’s wonderful, to surrendering to your train of thoughts.
In the encounter more and more of impossibilities, in connection with, f.e continuous pains, I learned to shift my gaze. Searching for distractions and alternatives, I learned to focus my happy mind on all the wonderful and admirable little things in the world around me.
My husband since 1968 Karel (kareldg on RR) bought a small pocket camera for me, and taught me to work with Fractal Explorer. Through my little Sony camera I learned to look differently, to see deeper; to see the details, the structure, how refined, and just so unique the small ones are in God's creation.
What is one of my daily tasks is trying to support people who suffer from PTSD, but they suffer more in an emotional way, and I can understand them and listen to their story (digital) they trust me.
Renderosity: What projects are you currently working on?
Dochtersions: Of course I would love to take more concrete technical knowledge to me (to acquire), and follow tutorials, how to work with Ultra Fractal, Mandelbulb, etc.. The capabilities of PSP investigate and experiment with it.
The manual of my current camera (Canon PowerShot SX50HS, and as pocket camera Panasonic DMC-TZ35, since 2020 I use a Canon PowerShot SX70HS). I would like to sift through, and experiment with it. But exactly that kind of things, such as reading comprehension, concentration, makes this especially, by the constant dominating intense facial pain, really impossible.
All in all, I continue to look for improvement, while in the meantime trying to be light-hearted, happy and hopeful, to be open to everything that's coming my way. I enjoy art, stay in the nature, the outer man/woman in me, the love that I've been given, to realize this, and to be thankful for. Wherever I am happy with is that I am able to meet so many lovely people through RR. Unfortunately, only digital, but I'm also grateful.
Comments (33)
clbsmiley
I see a brilliantly lighted staircase! A rainbow after the storm, and an island down below. Sunrise and Smiley :)
mininessie
i can see the misterious caves :D and the river under them ;)
magnus073
Mies, this is such a beautiful and expressive image my friend. The more you look at it the more you can dream of what it could be.
durleybeachbum
Fascinating to examine this!
flavia49
stunning image
Jennyfnf
An orchard of silver nutmeg trees. A magical Talis moon. Rapunzel combing her hair and a lovely view of the stream running through your garden:-)
peedy
Beautiful! Gorgeous colors. Corrie
vxbob
Like it for the interesting details and composition and coloring even though the colors seem a bit faded to me
Faemike55
Fascinating work, Mies! Looks great
flora-crassella
a WONDERFUL work, Jacomina!
jayfar
I can see a Talisman in this Talis-land Mies. Beautiful work.
annie5
I'm fascinated by what i see! Something original and crative :)
lior
So fantastic!
Juliette.Gribnau
mooi gedaan ! fijne kleuren
emmecielle
I agree with clbsmiley, I also see the stairs that lead up to the rainbow! Fabulous fractal, Mies! Fantastic colours! :)
greyone
Such a wonderful image you created here. As you can see from the comments there are many ways to see the same image. That is one of the wonderful things abstract images like this one can accomplish, They tend to fill what ever need the person looking at it has. Dergelijke een prachtig beeld die u hier gemaakt. Zoals u uit de opmerkingen zien kunt zijn er vele manieren om het hetzelfde beeld te zien. Dat is een van de abstracte beelden van prachtige dingen zoals deze kunt bereiken, zij de neiging te vullen wat ooit behoefte van de persoon te kijken heeft.
kepp
excellant abstract super colours
carlx
Excellent composition and cool colors!!!
kbrog
Fantastic work Mies! :)
farmerC
Schitterend werk en vormen.
jmb007
beau paysage!!
wjames
Fantastic work Mies!!!!!
~*****~mariogiannecchini
Fascinating work, Mies! Excellent abstract !!!
sandra46
EXCELLENT IMAGE, VERY BEAUTIFUL!
npauling
A super view through your window, I can see all sorts of things here.
mgtcs
WOW....Fabulous abstract here, the colors and brightnes are just great, loved it!
jocko500
my imagination is been renew day by day. The rainbow God put in the sky as a sign. all is well just fellow Him. .. I like your words as they are wonderful done as this image is
myrrhluz
This is fascinating! Along the bottom I see a conduit with arched doors to alternate universes. The conduit itself is subdued in color. It is not a place to stay, but a place to go from one world to another. In the bottom left corner you can see the speeding trails of travelers passing through this corridor to one beyond. They are not traveling in anything as mundane as cars or trains, but in streams of energy. But I have just left the corridor and stepped into a world. A world where music has taken on form. I can climb the stairs and enter a world of vibrating strings. I can climb the slope of brass to the ballroom of percussion. I think the section in the right lower corner is a soprano belting out. I may avoid that area. Or I can just lie in the soft pink bed between them and listen to them all together, as long as the soprano isn't being too loud. Okay, I went on a bit there, but your abstracts (and your words) have that effect on me. Excellent colors and designs. I love the soft colors mixed with jeweled tones, and the motion. Beautiful words of hope, fortitude, and wisdom. What I really love about this image, is that tomorrow I could look and see something entirely different. But it would still be filled with light, and beautiful!
algra
Heel apart, in beslist niet alledaagse kleuren. Ik mag het wel!
Rerewhakaaitu
Gorgeous. I see the fish looking at their reflections in the window, and perhaps yearning to join their reflections on the other side of the glass.