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 (8)
ladylake
Beautiful words and a fantastic image. It appears to be full of joy!! :-)
dochtersions
Thank you so much, Lynn.
chrysaor
A work full of metaphors and associations. In line with Your words of hope and soothing. May these come true and thanks for the effort and will to utter them!
dochtersions
Thank you so much, my friend.
ShadowsNTime
All the same to you and yours Jacomina...once again I did not get notifications so I am sorry as I do not have much time for searching...this is typically the kind of beauty that you share with us...I am hopeful that you and husband are doing okay and having lovely holidays...our snow is gone already and I hope stays gone lol! with love, your friend!
dochtersions
Thank you so much for your lovely comment, dear Lynn. With me it's the same, I don't receive notifications as well, I'm hoping you're doing well, my friend.
arthez
great colors - just to hang on the wall.... 5+
dochtersions
Thank you so much, Fred!
Richardphotos
very beautiful work and choice of gradients. Happy New Year to you and yours
anahata.c
your words are beautiful, Jacomina. You write beautifully, and I"m very grateful, as I know you're writing in a third or fourth language. You gave us beautiful new year wishes.
First, thank you for your beautiful comment on my "copper winter image". I really like the idea of trees' words roaming around in the fog...It's as if their words are dancing in the fog. I feel that when I'm there---a feeling of communion in the air. Even on dark days, the lake becomes alive when it's alone...I really appreciate what you wrote.
As for this image: You posted it on January 1st, but I've been offline most of January. So I'm late (once again). Your fractal looks like a huge shellfish, a mollusk (weekdier---I hope that's right!). But, like all your fractals, it's mystical and imbued with spirit.
I love the orange. And the long "spinal column" that swirls around its edge. You've put this over a kind of rough watercolor paper. (I realize it's digital, but it looks like fine watercolor or drawing paper.) And the paper has little sepia drawings dancing on it. Then it has a huge "hat"---like those wild hats women wore in the 1930's. Or hats people wear in street fairs in Brazil or Mexico City, or New Orleans during Carneval---with beautiful colors and silks, etc. And there are lines swirling through the top half of your image, like long antennae,. It's a big beautiful creature, with a big beautiful hat, or----better, a "bruidstrein". (Right??? A wedding gown train? A "kapel trein"?) Whatever it is, it looks like an ornate, lush fabric tail, which follows the weekdier wherever it goes. It's beautiful, no matter what it is! Happy New Year to you, Jacomina, and I hope, hope, hope that you get some relief this year, with much, much peace. Much light, healing and love to you, mark
JohnnyM
Just now getting around to viewing this amazing work of art at this site and it is beautiful, but then again what else can one expect from someone as skilled as you in creating it!
I hope the new year is treating you well, its hard to believe its all ready the 25th of January here in the US...time marches on at such a fast pace. Its always the little things in life that one has to make time for, for those are the things that matter the most in ones life. You have my best wishes for the rest of year to bring many joyful moments in the months ahead. I will look forward to viewing more of your art work in the coming months, till then take care an be well my friend. :-)
dochtersions
Thank you so much for your wonderful comment, dear friend, JohnnyM. You are so right about the little thing in life, it's a gift if we notice this.
APlusDesign
Beautiful words with beautiful arts. A joy to have you around too :) Take care and happy 2023!