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 (21)
kgb224
Outstanding work Mies. God bless.
durleybeachbum
Thankyou for the giggle, Mies! What fun!
SunriseGirl
I like the title, Mies. He is the Piano Man :) and he has the music inside him. Great artwork
npauling
What a fun title you chose for this beautiful fractal. I love the colors too. ☺
Faemike55
he looks all keyed up for some reason
great work
Freethinker56
Magnificent love it
chrisann
Beautiful!
ArtistKimberly
Fantastic Work,
helanker
HEHEHE! Yes, and he ate it from the front and now it is stuck in his mouth and it cant come out again. He looks like he regrets, he was so greedy :) A super fractal and a perfect title too :-)
Juliette.Gribnau
tja; na het eten van een piano zal hij wel goed kunnen zingen !
claude19
a very outstanding composition ! great creativity Mies !!! awesome result !!!
VDH
Prachtig fractalwerk!Mooi design!
beachsidelegs
That is pretty cool my friend made me smile :)
farmerC
Verbazend Mooi gefractald.
jmb007
amusant
MrsRatbag
The title fits perfectly! What a brilliantly sly and funny piece of art!
g1tip
Very, very cool image !!!
Glendaw
LOL--- What a funny and amusing fellow you have created.
Perfect Title indeed !
XxOo
ia-du-lin
Cool title for this beautiful fractal image.
flavia49
fabulous
anahata.c
lol, as a pianist, I can appreciate this! There were days, when I was studying, when I wanted to eat the piano and never see it again. (Or throw the piano out the window.) I love the green mean face, and those splotches of deep red, like he's really mad. And the keys in his mouth. It's a wonderful mask, and it seems to 'emerge'---the mask evolves out of swirling energies behind it. A wonderful image, lots of fun, and it's beautiful as well. And I can tell you from experience---a piano is just a tiny bit "too big" for a meal. Maybe a few keys, maybe a hammer, maybe one string---but the whole thing? It would take several weeks, and many musicians to eat a grand piano. (And I don't think they'd feel very good, afterwards.) I'll remember this image, on days when I want to shout at my keyboard. Wonderful.
(The only thing heavier than a grand piano is a pipe organ---something you and Karel know a lot about. The organ-console itself must weigh as much as a mountain; but the pipes? It must take an army to lift those things! I've played pipe organs in churches, and I couldn't believe the sound they made. I think---I think---they're the largest instruments on earth...)