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 (18)
MrsRatbag
Spectacular! Wow!!!!!
jayfar
Thank you Jacomina tea is my favourite drink so this goes down well !!
Cyve
What a fabulous fractal work my friend... WOnderfully done once again !!!
matstan2610
Very nice coloring and patterns. Beautiful fractal.
farmerC
Prachtig werk.
jmb007
beau travail!
Richardphotos
stunning creation
auntietk
oh my! What a contrast to your burning diamond! This is so pale and lovely, and has such movement! Beautifully done, and of course I'm not surprised. you do such good work.
claude19
SUPERB ! exceptionnal abstract as always ! Great surreal Art !!!
mininessie
love the effect like mother-of-pearl!
VDH
Originele en creatieve fractal !!
helanker
Jacomina, you are so great at making depth in your fractal art. Looks fantastic :-)
soffy
Lovely and elegant work,I love the colors:)***
kgb224
Outstanding work Mies. God bless.
chrisann
Very nice!
Glendaw
Aw I see a tea pot, trying to make its way around the clutter !
Wonderful shapes, colors and intricate details Mies in this beautiful looking image .
P.S. Tea is my fav. hot beverage !
X-PaX
Okay I'm crazy ;) I see an invisible robot that slowly becomes visible again 8) Very nice work Jacomina.
anahata.c
yes, with tara, this is such a change from the burning diamond! I can kind-of see a teapot, but the image is more of the "inner life" of a teapot, what the teapot dreams as it's boiling on the stove. Such a beautiful image! You have metallic textures, and wonderful lighting, and veils, and all kinds of spines and ribs, and fabrics like fine lace...and there are purples, and browns, and yellows. And lots of transparent layers. It's like the inner imagination of the teapot. I'd like to think that a "mere cup of tea" has this kind of life in it: It probably does at the molecular level. A wonderful inner-portrait; and your motion and forms and colors are just heavenly.
(Very musical too. I can see your musician ship through all your work. I can see Bach too. Counterpoint everywhere!)
(And btw: Thank you for all your wonderful comments---they're caring, always perceptive, and always receptive. Second, thank you for looking at my fractal: To get a kind comment from a master like you is a thrill. I wish I could post more, but I only have 5 others, and they're really not too good. I would love to do fractals, but 1) Mac doesn't have good programs; and 2) I just don't know how to do them. I need to sit and try one day. The few times I worked with fractals, I just shook my head and thought: "How do artists get art out of this???" When I come to your gallery, I decide you're on a another level entirely. But thank you for the encouragement. I appreciated it greatly, Mies.)