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.
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Comments (11)
VDH
Mies, opnieuw een fantastische abstracte creatie ! Excellent !!!!!
rocdan
BEAUTIFUL WELL DONE
adrie
Weer een ontzettend mooi art. excellent gemaakt Mies.
prutzworks
mooie gemengde techniek
A_Sunbeam Online Now!
Splendid textures and structure
Koala44
Wonderful work,
jclP
fantastique abstrait création
voske
Schilderij &gedicht vol emoties wel een fantastisch en creatief schilderij.
anahata.c
I only have time for a few comments right now. But I wanted to comment on your 2 most recent images, before another day passes. This is extraordinary, Jacomina. Your poem is almost Buddhist---ie, the outside of the soul is locked and unavailable to the day-to-day world. But the inside is filled with love and light, the light deep inside of you. The poem is very mystical, and it has the simplicity and profundity of Eastern spiritual poems. (By "Eastern," I mean India, China, Japan, etc.)
The face in your painting is like a buddha (the "wise, loving soul within"). I see a closed eye: Perhaps the eye is closed to keep out the harshness of the world...And perhaps the eye is closed to keep its secrets from escaping into the world...But the eye may be closed because, deep inside, the soul sits for eternity, communing with light and with love. So I see peace in this face, even though your poem speaks of keeping the world far away. You use restrul blues and greens here. You've adorned this amazing face with the simplest 'jewels'---little beads. (And remember that meditation is often done with beads.) The textures around the face are beautiful too: a sea of the "objects of the world": Those objects are beautiful.....This person's face (it seems like a female) emerges out of the soil to shine. I can feel the desire to stay hidden in your words; but I see real tranquility inside your image. And, just visually,, your image is beautiful and restful. A powerful piece of art, Jacomina. And it's deep. Your paintings are exceptional.
(Thank you for your comment on my Halloween images: It was a deep comment. I wanted to tell you that you were right: The bottom two images were, for me, positive variations on the original. I actually meant them as a redemption and "sunny" version. Because I think Halloween has much beauty in it---the beautiful fall colors, and th autumn fragraces, and because Halloween was originally a time to greet the spirits of loved ones who have died. It was a "reunion". And, in the Pre-Christian world, October 31st was the end of the year, so Halloween was born out of a New Year celebration. I was really glad that you saw the positive in those last two images: I think my calling them "Halloween images" made people think were 'dark', macabre and sinister. I'm glad you saw the positive in them.)
artdreamer
Wat een schitterend interessant schilderij heb je gemaakt waar heel veel in te ontdekken valt.
steve2
Magnificent painting . Beautiful.