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 (6)
CoolDimension
This is fantastic! Wonderful work! From the thumbnail it looks like a colorful quilt!
dochtersions
Thank you so much for your wonderful comment, my friend, I love what you wrote about a quilt.
Richardphotos
wonderful art work and so unique
prutzworks
interessant patchwork
anahata.c
Oh yes, it definitely looks like a quilt. And a painting. And a fairy tale scene made of cutouts, fabric, wood, paper, etc. And we do see the animal garden people...
There are very defined structures here, Jacomina, but you also have a wonderful "abstraction" too---the plants and animals all have their own unique forms: They're clearly plants and animals, and yet they're entirely unique. You use beautiful purples, and deep greens, and muted yellows and oranges, end so on. And I see people here, and animals. An amazing piece, Jacomina, I just love it. It would look great as a wall-sized piece.
I'm at about 45 minutes here, so I must stop for now. I'll come back to do the most recent pieces soon. But for now, another beautiful journey through your artistic world, and I hope you heal as much as you can, Jacomina, and get through this current set of ailments and intrusions (incl the penicillin). All the best healing to you...your work is exquisite, as always.
dochtersions
Thank you so much, Mark, and I love what you saw in it, to be honest I had to think of you by making the style because of the colors. Underneath, with a bit fantasy I discovered a small piece with musical notes, and it came up in me to place this as a dedication for you. But then I doubted, because I didn't know what your health, etc. would be. I don't know of you know the woman stylist Gudrun Sjoden from Sweden. She uses spectacular and very fine color combinations and a kind of nature patrons, I put a style together with pieces of her designs. Now I'm tired too. ;-) Mark, hoping you'll feel better soon. I also hope that you take all the rest you need, because forcing is not good, right? Bless you, my friend.