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 (6)
ladylake
Didn't know it was his birthday. Nice birthday card. Happy Birthday, friend. :-)
VDH
Opnieuw prachtig fractalwerk, mooie kleuren combinatie !!
RodS Online Now!
OMG!! It's Mark's B-Day? I'll be a day or two late, but I'll come up with something... Mark is an AWESOME human, and a wonderful artist.
This is perfect for him!
A_Sunbeam
Lovely colours!
anahata.c
Jacomina, forgive me for coming to your upload 2 days late: I've been moving like a snail (naaktslak, ja?), like a big dinosaur. I love what you created: I see the green rising, I see the spring and rebirth...but I also see the flags, and those glorious whites weaving through your deep crimsons and greens, as if to say, "spring has come, and it's going to rush into everything". It's beautiful. I love it.
Like so many of your fractals, this has a center, a kind of nucleus (a kern, ja? a molecular "zaad"), and your whole fractal flows out of it. Gorgeous colors, beautiful rushing waves, a sea on the bottom, and those beautiful green squares on top (left side)---you're so creative, Jacomina, you create jewel-like universes everytime...And it all seems to sit upon a big beautiful piece of watercolor paper (Rives, a wonderful French paper maker comes to mind: I love your background here, too). It's beautiful---as always. Thank you so much.
And, re. your poem:
Thank you for the beautiful wishes for strength and rejuvenation. I appreciate them greatly. I have to accept that this year will involve several medical treatments, plus healing. It will take a long time. (Hey, I'm 75---I'm no "spring chicken," as we say in the states. Do you have that expression? Piepkuiken??? Ja? I'm like an aged dinosaur right now! You should see me...) So your words and rhymes, about reaining strength and blooming, are perfect. Thank you for all your kindness! And I see rhyme not only in your translation, but in several places in your original version. Also, your rhythm in Dutch is dancing. I'm sorry I can't read Dutch well: I know you put a lot of time into your poems, and I wish I knew Dutch well: Thank you for always translating for us. (If I translated this with an online translater, it would sound like this: "Vandaag het feest is/vlaggen wapperen in die de wind," etc. (Right?) Your translation is so smooth---complimenten! Chapeau! Thank you so much, Jacomina, I know you can't come to RR very often due to your health issues, and I'm very grateful you came here for this. I owe you a letter, and I'll write to you soon. But thank you for this wonderful birthday gift. And I wish you all the healing in the world, and the same for Karel. With blessings and thanks, happy maart! "De tulpen hebben bloemen, ja?" (well, almost), and a blessed Pasen to you too! (that's all the Dutch I know!), love and joy, mark
APlusDesign
Beautiful piece!