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 (17)
VDH
Een mooie en originele compositie Mies, Excellent en creatief !!
beachsidelegs
This is beautiful my friend :)
Glendaw
Wow this is beautiful Mies. Like how you have mixed land creatures with sea life and still life. There is soooo much to see at one sitting. The mix of colours ,textures and lighting brings this altogether.
Sounds like you have made a little progress with your PTSD. You have worked very hard to find some sort of comfort living with this horrid emotional disease. Thinking of you and praying for you Mies. 💕❤️💕
Faemike55
one can see the forces that are within you in this creation and yet for all the chaos, there is a sense of order. Outstanding presentation
je kunt de krachten zien die in je zijn in deze creatie en toch is er voor alle chaos een gevoel van orde. Uitstekende presentatie
rachris480907
Wonderful work, Mies!
Is that a stick of licorice? I'm surprised that you were self-disciplined enough to use it. I would have ended up eating it.
Richardphotos
very creative art
rhol_figament
The journey was most enjoyable, I see an animated stop motion film with all the pieces moving about the canvas, with the right music of course...
mininessie
Love it! Hugs!
MagikUnicorn
farmerC
Hier kun je mee thuiskomen Mies.
4aparte creatie's en toch een geheel,vind deze een van je Mooiste werken...…….. Klasse.
RodS
Wow! That is really fantastic, my friend! Art is the best therapy I know of, and it looks like it's working well for you, my friend! Stay strong! 👍
netot
I think there is much to discover! Beautiful creation, Jacomina!
ia-du-lin
A lot of pretty things.
anahata.c
I thought that I sent a link for this to Helle, because Helle makes constructions like this. (Helle would love this!) I'll send her a link as soon as I leave your gallery today...
I love this. I love it. You made such a rich collection of small objects. And each object has meaning...even if we don't know what the meaning is, the objects feel like they have meaning. And the forms of one section seem to flow into the forms of another. (Some of those black squiggly lines point right into a neighboring section, for instance.) I love the fish and shells and fish netting...and the round things that look like brooches and amulets. And butterflies and leaves and pearls, etc. (There's a lot of sea imagery here.) Do you own all these objects? You pasted them together beautifully. This is masterful, Jacomina, a mini-cosmos of treasured things...with lots of plant and sea imagery, and lots of other things too. This is such a creative way to handle the "things of our lives". Gorgeous and deep work. Bravo...
helanker
Hello Jacomina!! Yes, Mark sent me a link to this amazing piece of so creative art and I can only sing with Mark about it, as I love it so much too. You know I love this kind of art, as I told you so in a letter, but you are made for this style alot more than I am. I can see, this is simply YOU. You do it so beautifully and I do hope, that it at the same time, can give you some peace, some ease in your mind. I hope you wont ever stop doing this. It is absolutely wonderful !!! BW, Helle ;-)
steve2
This is one of the most beautiful works of art I have seen in awhile. Thanks for sharing it.
Myel
Excellent work! The colors, the textures give a creative work with a very positive mood. It's inspiring. Thanks for sharing. M.