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 (22)
kgb224
Outstanding work Mies. God bless.
durleybeachbum
So clever, and very intriguing !
SunriseGirl
Oh yes, I think I see the billy in this lovely image LOL
npauling
Another great title for this splendid fractal Mies, I love it, you really have found a sweet spot in apophysis. ☺
Faemike55
Very appropriate title
Freethinker56
You may be having trouble with titles but Fractal are awesome
chrisann
Very nice!
ArtistKimberly
Fantastic Work,
helanker
Fantastic, what you can squeeze out of that program, Jacomina :-) I cant even make the simpliest things of it.
Juliette.Gribnau
beautiful
claude19
S P L E N D I D ...3D feeling !!! awesome creation !!!
beachsidelegs Online Now!
It is wonderful love the shape and colours :)
farmerC
Prachtige creatie en kleur.
X-PaX
Beautiful work Jacomina.
jmb007
jolie
MrsRatbag
Incredibly fluid and colourful with amazing light; another brilliant piece!
g1tip
Beautiful work !!!
Glendaw
Awesome shapes, colors, textures and lighting.
Great job as always Mies.
XxOo
blondeblurr
Thank you for a reminder, of our [almost] National Anthem ! - LOL and indeed someone is boiling the billy already and the cuppa is waiting to be tested, with milk and one lump of sugar... hmm lovely, THANK YOU, Jacominchen...
Bampster
Excellent- really enjoy your titles!!!!!
ia-du-lin
great abstract fractal image
anahata.c
Yes, this is Brigitte's national anthem, lol---I remember this song from childhood, and it was my very first 'taste' of Oz ("down under"). It's a sad song too, if I recall...but I think Mathilda waltzes forever, at the end of the song. (I'm presently finishing a letter to Brigitte...long overdue...she probably knows this song well. It's the Australian version of our "Yankee Doodle," lol...)
But your fractal: My god, it's a big beautiful cracked glass, like a beautiful ceramic or a piece of glass art, and it's been shattered in a few places. Or a beautifully decorated glass plate that's been shattered. It's gorgeous. These "out of thin air" artworks you make are beautiful. When I first saw this, I wondered where "mathilda" was, in your image. Then I began to think: She's the dancing glass! Now I see all these energy-lines---the shapes you put above and below the "glass"---they're like energy-bursts, after-glows...they surround the main shape, and they come out of the main shape like big magnetic fields. They're the kinds of shapes you see in colliding stars or galaxies, or in nebulae, etc. This is beautiful. The song (Waltzing Mathilda) probably hasn't had a better visual representation in its life...