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 (3)
APlusDesign
WOAH this is creepy. Lovely photo manipulation here, great results
dochtersions
Thank you so much, Amanda.
ladylake
Excellent work on this.
dochtersions
Thank you very much Lyla, it was rather a lot of work ding so.
anahata.c
I've not seen images like this before, in your gallery. You did a great job capturing the eerie, macabre and desperate feeling of a Halloween nightmare. And I can definitely see how much work you did for this image: the cutting and pasting, and the blending. It's hard to blend images so that all images are visible at the same time: I appreciate how long that takes.
This is a scene out of hell. As I said in an earlier comment, it reminds me of Dante's Inferno. All those 'bundles' on the ground: They look like mummies, or wrapped corpses. And you have two people on the right who look like characters from Renaissance paintings or frescoes of hell. One of them is wrapped in plastic---it seems that way---and she's almost suffocating; and both people are in postures of despair and hopelessness. The figure on the left is like a mannequin---or, better, a human being who's turned into a mannequin because he's been in hell so long. He's fractured, split, cut into pieces. And Everywhere there are curtains, and ghosts behind the curtains, and corpses peeking out of the curtains. And it looks like you placed eyeballs in several places, as if someone is spying on this scene. You even have a heart-like shape, as if a heart were beating in the middle of this nightmare. And of course the cobwebs, which are like bony skeletons...Your layers (blends) produced textures right out of 16th C. paintings: ie, old, cracked oil paint and tempura. And you put long lines running down the image, as if the image were weeping...
This is a huge, nightmare-vision. And I love the frame (which is one of the layers free of any blends, so it can shine by itself. A brilliant piece, Jacomina. One of the best Halloween images I've ever seen in my life. Een pluim! (right? "kudos!" Or, another word which is the same in Dutch as it is in English: Bravo!)