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 (28)
g1tip
An amazing image !!! Really cool fractal !!!
durleybeachbum
I see him and I also see lots of chiffon fabrics in an exciting textile pattern!
Lenord
Ebots are BACK! I can see when my friends upload again, maybe I'll come around Rendo more again now, good to see your work again
kgb224
Wonderful work Mies. God bless.
flora-crassella
ein wunderschönes Bild, liebe Jacomina!
Mein Konto war jetzt ein paar Monate gesperrt - keine Ahnung warum. Heute bekomme ich endlich wieder Meldungen, dass Bilder hochgeladen wurden......
claude19
this fish is jumping out of the river...to take air !!!
VDH Online Now!
Mooie fractal, complex design! Mooie kleuren! Puik werk Mies!!
magnus073
Jacomina, this is a wonderful and vibrant image you created my friend
beachsidelegs
I see so many wonderful things in this beautiful image, Love it :)
bugsnouveau Online Now!
Beautiful
kepp
lovely image Mies
Richardphotos
wonderful detailed fractal
anahata.c
as I said in Helle's gallery, flora-crassella and Dave are back---great news. (A few other people are back too...I just don't know all of those people, though I'm glad to see them return.) I see more than one jumping fish, though there seems to be a very big one here, who actually looks like a whale. The piece has sweeping curves which could be large fish, and several fish eyes, to my sight. (A few look like lutes or mandolins.) And your usual inter-weaving curves and furling forms, like fabrics, silks, chiffons (ala Andrea) blowing in a small windstorm. And you have these 'ribs'---almost like music manuscript, or stringed instrument finger-boards---which give more definition to the curves. In fact, there are a lot of musical shapes here, I see some brass too...In any case, it's another rich swirl of beautiful shapes and fabrics, moving in and out of each other. And yes, it has an underwater feel, with beautiful undulating underwater light. More beautiful work from you.
soffy
:)yes I see the beautiful fish and alle the lovely details and the colors are so wonderful,my friend,amazing work****
Cyve
What a fabulous fractal work my friend !!!
emmecielle
Fantastic fractal work, dear Jacomina! :-)
fractalartist01
I see an 'alternate universe!' Great work!
Faemike55
sweet work Mies! it looks like they are coming up to be fed
MrsRatbag
Chiffon, yes; with lovely patterns! Beautifully diaphanous art!
magichild2
This is unique. I see jumping fish and much more...mysterious and magnificient
helanker
WOW! I feel I am in the middle of a shoal of fish, when I use full size.. This is another of your wonderful fractal wonders :-)
alida
lovely fractal and welcome back to mails from the site
X-PaX
I see the flying dutchman :-) Very nice work Jacomina.
farmerC
Mies wat heb je weer Prachtig werk neergezet.
Klasse.
Bampster
Outstanding abstraction, it should be on large canvas, it's that good!!!!!
mininessie
well...i can see the tail of the fish...don´t sure if i see the same as you...but i see it! :D
blondeblurr
This could easily apply to us here in the Southern hemisphere: 'Summertime and the fish are jumping' - would you remember "Porgy and Bess" the Musical or Opera ? by George Gershwin or was it Ira Gershwin ? Anyhow, that's another story - the nets look certainly full and enough to feed all of us here and it's such a rich harvest and I just love Seafood ... hope you do too ?
Be well and warm my friend, while we are sweating it out
Cheers BB
Glendaw
The huge fins in the center makes me think it has dived way under the deep water.
Awesome ocean scenery and atmosphere, well done Mies.