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 (15)
Faemike55
Beautiful work
claude19
very great thynaks Mies !!! thanks for these beautiful Christmas days !!!
durleybeachbum
This is like a piece of stained glass!
farmerC
Prachtig kleuren spel........
kgb224
Outstanding work Mies. God bless.
iborg64
interesting looking creation
beachsidelegs
Very cool image my friend :)
helanker
So very lovely indeed :-)
g1tip
Real nice work, my friend ! ! !
flavia49
wonderful
Richardphotos
beautiful work
Glendaw
Very beautiful colors, lighting and atmosphere Mies.
Reminds me of the kizzillions of shoppers leaping back to the stores to return gifts and others joyously singing about the wonderful Boxing Day Sales.
ia-du-lin
cool abstract composition
emmecielle
Fantastiuc work, Mies! :)
anahata.c
I wonder if you've heard the Black Gospel versions of this song...because your image has a big fountain-like celebration, like the huge voices and shouting jubilations of a great Black Gospel choir. The song originated as an African-American spiritual, sung without instruments, and sung with great force and power. It is wonderful for Christmas, because it's about shouting joy from the mountaintops (of Christ's birth). Your image captures that spirit---you have a big mountain landscape, but you turned it into a huge fountain, with the earth flying up to the sky in glee. It's like the earth became 'liquid' all of a sudden, and jumped for joy. And the clouds meet the fountains with beautiful light-blues.
Also, considering that you posted this in December---when there's usually not much "green" around---this image is 'shouting' in greens and yellows, and other colors too. When this image went on RR, I couldn't comment, because it knocked me over, and I didn't know how to express what I felt. But now I can. Terrific image, Jacomina, and one of your best evocations of music-through-art in your whole gallery. I hope your holidays were blessed.