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 (24)
magnus073
You did an amazing job on this very lovely creation, Mies.
Lenord
Spring is about to erupt and bring fits of sneezing to all afflicted with Hayfever like me....AaaaCHoooo!.... Peace
durleybeachbum
A lovely garden! My second green project was a bit of a failure and has gone to a charity shop!
farmerC
Deze overtreft de vorige. Prachtige Creatie.
adrie
Klasse werk Mies, een super mooie fractal....vindt de kleuren ook er mooi.
emmecielle
Obama would have been entranced even in front of your fractals! ;) Fantastic vernal composition! :)
claude19
splendid composition, excellent realization ! wonderful work !!!
jayfar
Very beautiful and clever Jacomina.
iceberg5
A wonderful image !
anmes
Beautiful creation
soffy
So beautiful colors in this lovely garden,wonderful work***
Faemike55
Lovely eruption of colours and patterns
sandra46
GREAT WORK!
flavia49
beautiful image
peedy
Beautiful, Mies! Wat een mooie kleuren. Corrie
Juliette.Gribnau
heerlijk speels en vrolijk
SunriseGirl
Well- named artwork. I love the way you have created this "emergence" of spring. It really does give the feeling of spring flowers popping out after a blue-cold, drab winter.
dwarvenkind
Lovely, painterly piece. Nicely done.
vxbob
well done
anahata.c
Another beautiful floral fractal, Mies, and I just love how you make all these floral and animal images out of fractals. This does feel like a spring bouquet. All your blooms---large and small---are made of many 'tiny' blooms, piled one on top of the other. They almost look like coral reefs. And they radiate into that blue background---which also has those tiny blooms etched into them. And it all comes to a huge climax in the center, where you let your hues sing and dance, and you add a couple of beautiful green/purple bouquets too. Your color contrasts are intuitive and beautiful, in everything I've seen. A bouquet of flower-fireworks: wonderful work again! (I just saw a news conference with Obama. I didn't know he spoke from the Rijskmuseum---and I wonder if he knew De Nachtwacht, since it was so controversial in Rembrandt's time (and sent poor Rembrandt hurling into anonymity). I sometimes think Obama's in that position in my country---the States---since he can't control all the opposition he has: He's like Rembrandt's rejected "Nachtwacht". But, in De Nachtwacht, there's this heavenly creature, about a quarter of the way from the left side of the canvas, who just wanders into the procession behind a soldier: As one writer put it, she seems to step-in right out of the Psalms. She's lit like no one else in the painting, she's in a peasant skirt with beautiful gold-yellow trim, she's got a chicken hanging off her belt (!!), and she looks into the distance as if she knows something no one else knows. Maybe she was a princess or dignitary, I don't know: But Rembrandt turned her into an angel from another world. Maybe that's what Obama needs---that angel. To turn the world around. I think it's great that he spoke from that museum: I wish more politicians did. It's so much nicer than the usual "halls of State" that they normally speak from...
VDH
Prachtige fractal, prachtig bloemen patroon en levendige kleuren!
Badsue
Perfect fractal implementation, goal! Wonderful work as always, dear Mies!
blondeblurr
A Spring Flower fractal - the first one for me and it's divine to look at Jacominchen, so delicate indeed, like a cross stitch pattern from Grandmama's wedding-trousseau ... BB PS - apologies for being so intermittent with my comments on your art, but I have been not too well lately, but I think, I am on the mend - slowly, slowly now ...
danapommet
A lovely display of colorful fractal flowers!