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 (26)
magichild2
Beautifully done
Faemike55
do not worry about not commenting. your artwork is stunning and beautiful. as I see it, in my opinion, your art is your comment to us thank you
anahata.c
oh, ditto Mike: With art like this, you can post anytime, with or without comments: Your art is gift enough. This is exquisite, not only for its deep underwater hues, but the deep light, and the exquisite highlights...and the braided forms, and starbursts, and background purples and deep blues, etc. And the feeling that all this plant-life is surging forward, in the depths of the sea. You create all these fractal forms, and you make big living organisms out of them. This is exquisite, a beautiful gift, Jacomina. I wish you peace and rest, this holiday season.
X-PaX
Wow. I like this very much Jacomina. This is really a world under water. I would say it is a world in the deepsea. There are really creatures that produce such light games (i have seen this in a tv documentation).
beachsidelegs
What a beautiful image my friend I can see mermaids having fun there, Love it :)
jmb007
humide !!!!!
claude19
splendid abstraction with flowing plants and wonderful colors ! You are a very great Artist for me !!! sumptuous création !!!
durleybeachbum
So beautiful, Mies!
So lovely to see this gorgeous design. Much of Northern England is a world under water at present. We are lucky here in the South, it has been dry except for a few drizzle showers.
soffy
So very beautiful and elegant this is,lovely dancing aqua plants you have created,my friend,excellently done***
Lenord
Splendid Apo piece
helanker
What a gorgeous shoal of sea creatures you have created. Simply wonderful, dear Jacomina. Simply wonderful. Dont worry about sommenting. Time is not always with us.
Cyve
Absolutely fabulous my friend... Fantastic fractal Art once again !!!
blondeblurr
When I used to go snorkeling and saw all that seaweed moving so rhythmically with the flow of the water - it looked just like this image, Jacominchen ... did you ever in your life go swimming in the ocean and visualized the same thing as I did ???
whether you did or not, doesn't really matter much, but to find the right 'fractal tool' - now that is amazing !!! because I love your perfect fractal image, imitating real seaweed, 
very clever indeed 
Tschuess bis bald und bleib gesund, soweit wie Du kannst meine Liebe ...
Cheers BB
g1tip
Beautiful work!
VDH
Magische creatie, de kleuren zijn buitengewoon mooi!
MrsRatbag
Your art is all the comment you need to make; this is so lovely, undulating quietly beneath the surface, graceful and serene...
matstan2610
Fantastic flow of colors and light, excellent effect of water.
Juliette.Gribnau
mooi van vorm, kleur en beweging
mininessie
wow! this is magical...takes me to the deep sea...love it!
farmerC
Pure Schoonheid.
jif3d
Yes, a very neat underwater feel and I really like seaweed motion and colour to your fractal...makes me want to go for a swim !
BTW, thanks to you and Karel for the Birthday wishes on Mum's post, much appreciated.
Well done & ~Cheers~
npauling
A super underwater fractal Jacomina.
Bampster
Outstanding work, Mies. Love the colors, very electric in their intensity. Superb!!!!!
kgb224
Outstanding work Mies. God bless.
voske
Mooi en delicaat ,prachtig!
Glendaw
Wow what a gorgeous patch of seaweed swaying with the ocean tide.
The colors, lighting and atmosphere are perfect Mies.
I concur--- your art work is your comment to us !