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 (11)
eekdog
Incredible colored fractal! 5++
Glendaw
Aw what a nice size shell and pretty color Mies.
Like the big splash left behind as it is dropping to the bottom of the water.
Its long and lanky legs will be very helpful as it travels in and out of sunken ships, other sea debris and around the beautiful corals.
There will be lot of different things to see after the swirl of sandy water settles and if it is in the ocean you did on the last upload there will be lots to eat as well.
If it could talk the tales would be endless.
Gorgeous fractal and presentation as always Dear Mies, well done.
XxOo
Faemike55
This shell and its occupant will have many a tale to tell to its off-spring! Great work
giulband
Formidable image, it remember me a submarine landscape !!
farmerC
Prachtige creatie Mies.
durleybeachbum
I love that vibrant turquoise.
beachsidelegs
Awesome image my friend love it :)
kgb224
Superb work done by you Mies. God bless.
chrisann
Superb!
SunriseGirl
Love the colors in this...so gorgeous.
anahata.c
Well, dear Jacomina, I come to comment on your art, once more. You've posted quite a few pieces since I was last on RR. And---only because of the length of my comments---I cannot comment at-length on all of them. So I have to pick-and-choose (to get a representative sampling). Just know that I've seen everything you've posted; I've looked at them closely. If I comment on some, but not on others, it's only because of the length of my comments---not because I like the others less. I love all your art equally.)
Yes, this is a shell's journey. But you go inside the shell, and reveal an inner dance. It dances like a big ballet, or modern dance performance. And your background is a mass of royal draperies and beautiful metal shields and carvings. You have underwater hues, with a luminous aqua blue in the center. It's filled with those fish (and underwater creatures) which glow underwater. Perhaps this is the inside of a great shell...or perhaps it's a shell dancing in the water. Either way, it's a big dance, and it's shimmering. Beautiful work, Jacomina.