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)
beachsidelegs
Beautiful :)
npauling
A fabulous fractal with a lovely title. I love these notes you are playing. :)
QuietRiot
I see them! I once played the guitar and sang. I believe music in in and around us all the time. It's the sound of life!
Faemike55
beautiful work
rhol_figament
Nice one!
SunriseGirl
beautiful musical art. :)
durleybeachbum
Underwater music!
blankfrancine
A lovely fractal creation!
soffy
wonderfully done :))*****
farmerC
ook deze onder de noemer Schoonheid.
Je kleuren zijn Prachtig.
RodS
A wonderful, fun and creative way to bring back those memories! This is cool!
auntietk
Another thing we have in common, only different ... our musical background. I did not play guitar and sing in a band, but I did many other things. :) This is beautifully musical, and I can see the culture of the times as well as your lovely guitar notes!
ia-du-lin
Beautiful abstract fractal work, nice Colors.
anahata.c
It's a beautiful fractal, two large intruding shapes (top and left), with all those cellular, floating structures in the center. (The musical notes.) And there's so much variety in those 'notes'. You created wonderful floral detail running through them---like vines with flowers. And some rich bright greens, and purples, and grays, and olive greens, etc. I love how they flow in that open space, while those two bulbous surfaces---top and left---seem to make bluffs or walls to keep them safe. Beautiful work, Jacomina, once more...
Glendaw
What beautiful notes streaming out of your guitar into the flowery orchard Mies.
They do look like they are dancing and prancing about in this fun and vibrant image.
Thanks for sharing your mucical talent and the name of your band had a catchy name.
XxOo