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 (20)
jayfar
Lovely, warm and cosy Jacomina.
VDH
Dit is een fractal met mooie vormen en kleuren! Goed werk!!
Richardphotos
very beautiful work
Juliette.Gribnau
prachtig vloeiende beweging !
farmerC
prachtige creatie.
helanker
I really love the warm red colors in this beautiful creation, Jacomina :)
matstan2610
Beautiful shapes resembling a butterfly, gorgeous colors.
durleybeachbum
Rich, warm and enveloping. Beautiful.
beachsidelegs
WOW Gorgeous image my friend :)
mininessie
fantastic!
MrsRatbag
Exquisite in every way; the essence of butterflies, extracted and spread upon a swath of moonlight and dreams!
giulband
Superlative art !
jmb007
quelle espece ?
kgb224
Wonderful work Mies. God bless.
Glendaw
Very sharp, keen and beautiful moths swarming around the night lights Mies.
Wonderful warm red colors, lighting and atmosphere.
Awesome fractal work as always Mies.
bugsnouveau
Wow...very cool stuff
auntietk
I see them, and they're beautiful! So graceful. I think I will follow them into that light, and I'll be sure to learn something wonderful!
X-PaX
I don't see butterflies but i see a big bird (maybe a Flamingo) who is dancing ;) Very nice work Jacomina.
anahata.c
I'm starting out by doing just 1 comment in each gallery...then I'll return for longer sessions soon. So I'll be back for more in your beautiful world, soon...I picked this spontaneously because the quality of your work is so fine, it's hard to pick "just one". I see butterflies here, but you've made a deeply interpretive portrait of butterflies: You've captured their wing movements, and the waves of air that they create around them. And the warm glow they give out. (And the exquisite feeling they give us.) And you've let the swirls weave in and out of each other, like these butterflies are interacting with each other. The outer 'waves' are beautiful petals---on the left, you have rich greens and olive browns. As you often do, you made the center lights both luminous but subtle. And we can see an insect body---at least one---in the center, in your segmented form just below that big light. Beautiful, sensual work, Mies, with a real musical feeling to it. Like this is "the music a butterfly makes with its wings". (In English, the word "butterfly" may have been coined because its colors reminded people of butter. But your word for it is different, right? Vlinder? The German is "Schmetterling" and it has something to do with "cream"---so I guess the idea of butter or cream is common to at least 2 cultures, with butterflies. However one looks at it, they're opulent creatures. If butterflies saw this, they'd say you caught their essences beautifully...)
ia-du-lin
wonderful work, great colors