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 (14)
SunriseGirl
I love this!
kgb224
Outstanding work Mies. God bless.
farmerC
Mies dit is een Juweeltje.
Prachtig gedaan.
durleybeachbum
This reminded me of the film Around the world in 80 Days...That is a short enough time!
rhol_figament
Nice one!
Faemike55
I see the big balloon for this trip
beachsidelegs
Stunning image :)
npauling
Wow this is a fabulous fractal Mies. I guess you didn't really get enough time to call and see me as you passed as it was a very quick trip to get around in one day. lol. :)
rachris480907
Wonderful creation! And great title, too--that was the first impression that I got upon seeing this image: WORLD.
Love your work!
helanker
This makes me think about these Airships. Really ships that can fly in the air, that you see in adventure stories. Love this creation, Jacomina :)
chrisann
Fantastic!
iborg64
Fascinating and very colourful creation marvellous work
anahata.c
Whenever I return to RR, I always comment by gallery, rather than by date or ebot. So I don't get to many artists until several days have passed. I've looked forward to commenting on your work again, and sometimes I save you for my latter galleries, because your work is such a treat for me. (It gives me something to look forward to.) In any case, I've seen every one of your uploads, and the only reason I can't comment on them all is because of time. That's the only reason, because all of your art is worthy of comment.
I can see the globe here, but it burst open in a big dance---about 5 minutes ago---as if it were sick of being "round" and wanted to dance all over the Solar System. (It's "break dancing"!) You also have an etched feeling here, like you carved these shapes out of stone, in bas relief. And there are echoes everywhere...and I love how the globe is bursting out of a circle, as if it's jumping into the cosmos. A wonderful "world trip". Expertly done.
Also, Jacomina: Thanks so much for your comment, on 23d October, where you wrote me a poem: "A bird with a mustache/ a cat with a big laugh/ a moose with its vault like a tornado/ His name will be: Antonio Vivaldo". I loved that. And you signed it "Pieter 'Boer' Breughel de Oude van Gogh, Johanna Vermeer"---a compendium of Dutch artists (a "riff" off my idiotic long Dutch name---which I posted 1) as a bow to Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, and 2) as a bow to you! I was so glad you picked it up and went several steps further!
Glendaw
Aw what a gorgeous fractal map Mies.
Its a perfect air view, the colors, lighting and landmarks look awesome.