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 (19)
Glendaw
Aw it looks like you lost control of your balls Mies. LOL !
Awesome shapes, colors, reflections and atmosphere.
Great job, and encouraging help from your Dear Hubby is a added bonus.
SunriseGirl
Another gorgeous fractal, Mies. Those balls look like glass marbles to me. In American English (not sure about British English here) When someone goes crazy we sometimes say they have lost their marbles. I have often felt like I lost my marbles when I was overloaded with too much to do. This beautiful fractal gives me hope that at least when my marbles are lost they might be in a beautiful place such as one of your fractals. :)
Faemike55
Fabulous and beautiful fractal Mies.
Fabulous en mooie fractal Mies.
npauling
A super fractal and great work to keep all these balls in the air. How lovely to get help from hubby you are very lucky. ☺
CoyoteSeven
Marvelous image!
Freethinker56
Team work don't you love it..You really did a fabulous job on this
Richardphotos
what is there not to like? this is beautiful
durleybeachbum
This reminds me of the meaning of too many balls in the air, too much to do at once. I know that feeling!
Juliette.Gribnau
erg knap en leuk gedaan
farmerC
Exellente creatie.
VDH
Prachtige creatie, heel mooi design aangename kleuren!
kepp
superb piece love the colour
flavia49
excellent
ia-du-lin
wonderful creation and colors too
X-PaX
Very nice work Jacomina.
chrisann
Magnificient! great image
MrsRatbag
So much action in this beautiful artwork! Very well done!!!
claude19
a very beautiful plastic abstraction with light colors that accentuate the fragility of a work of art !!!
anahata.c
This is so beautiful. And so complex. I can see your love of Bach in your fractals, because you have such complex counterpoint, and also you have the deep emotional range of JS Bach, the deep expressive range. The main portion of this image has these 'sheets' moving in and out of each other; interacting with each other, picking up the light, and casting off the light. But you also have the balls, beautiful spheres which have this beautiful little world inside, almost a mini-fractal inside. And there's a big clump of organic stuff on the left bottom (more near-center than the left side), which is catching a lot of light. But then you have the background, which is a grainy set of 'walls', in purples and greens. They seem to be the 'backdrop' for your fractal. And a dividing line down the center. An immensely full fractal, with so much activity, and it's all musical and it's all beautiful. Another complex world from inside your amazing inner eye and heart. And the greens make it restful, too.