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 (17)
Cyve
Absolutely fabulous my friend and there colors are really fantastic !!!
VDH
Heel mooie fractal, vooral de kleuren vind ik mooi!!
densa
Sweet
Richardphotos
well, I can identify this as a fractal. beautiful work
MrsRatbag
Amazingly lovely work! Fiery beauty!
bluart
great work nice colors and movements
jmb007
jolie
claude19
GREAT SUCCESS with this OUTSTANDING flashing beauty ! Great Art of movements !!!
helanker
What a gorgeous result you got here, mixing two fractals. Superbly done, Jacomina :-)
durleybeachbum
So very rich and beautiful, Mies.
Juliette.Gribnau
een heel mooie mix !
jayfar
Boiling blood - just right for Halloween !!!
matstan2610
Wonderful effect, a beautiful work.
auntietk
your eye for composition with abstract fractals is superb! you have created a landscape with mountains and plains and with your diamond hovering in just the right place. This is just beautiful!
kgb224
Amazing work Mies. God bless.
Glendaw
Awesome mix of red hot flames blowing in the wind Mies.
Very unique and gorgeous mix of fractals, well done !
anahata.c
Ditto, all the above. With a special "yes!" to tara. This is like a closeup on a very intimate moment, with lots of shadow around, and intense light on the center. Where the burning diamond is transforming itself into something even more beautiful and mysterious. Your rushing lines are wonderful. You have long lines (bottom, right) and swirling lines (on the left, and in the swirls on the top). And in the center, it's like a big abstract oil painting. Almost like the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s and 1960s. Very intense, very active, something major is going on in there. It's like the atomic center of a diamond, where all the primal energies exist---the energies that allowed carbon to turn to diamond in the first place. It's beautiful, Mies...but with your work, that's simply a "given". I love what you called this. And really, it feels like an oil painting...I'll never know how you get that texture with fractals...