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 (7)
starship64
This is lovely.
dochtersions
Thank you very much!
A_Sunbeam
Great sense of depth, Lovely colours
dochtersions
Thank you so much, Sean.
APlusDesign
So elegant and beautiful!
dochtersions
Thank you so much, my friend.
arthez
just a Beauty - congrats
dochtersions
Thank you so much!
dochtersions
Thank you so much, my friend!
anahata.c
This feels like what happens when the last two images reveal their innermost secrets and hopes. (I.e., when the 'hidden' resurrection is finally made real. "The word made flesh".) There is a main center here---that circle about 1/3 of the way from the bottom of the image: It looks like the cosmos is spinning off in all directions, from that center, sending huge waves out into the depths of space. You have at least one other circle (in the upper right corner, in light pinks). This cosmos probably has many such circles (or vortexes/vortices/wervels?). And the cosmos radiates in the rhythms of birth and of angels---like ripples in a pond, your cosmos ripples from the massive impact of a divine birth.
And you use very restful colors---deep greens, blue-and-pink greens, pale flesh-tones, pinks, etc etc. It suggests deep sea colors as well as the colors of the soul bursting forth. I don't think you're portraying angels "literally" here---you're portraying their essence, their spirit. And the wings, here, aren't physical wings, but wings of the soul. To me, this is a photograph of the inner-light of angels, and of all the rhythms and ripples that they create. It's a burst. Again, this is very powerful Easter/Pasen art: Your 3 Easter images are much more deep interpretations of the holiday than "portraits" of it. Or, better, they're "inner" portraits rather than "outer" portraits. Amazing work, Jacomina. Some of the best interpretative spiritual art I've seen in a long time. I will write to you soon, but in the meantime I hope you're doing ok, I wish you great healing, and I wish you and Karel a wonderful new spring and rebirth.
dochtersions
My friend, I don't know what to say, I'm totally impressed about your description, your 'look' about how you interpret everything. It makes me happy, it has so much depth in a kind of soul happiness. I wrote a poem about that last word, I should look it up. Thank you, Mark, thanks, thanks, thanks.
XoxoTree
Oh my goodness your title is exactly how I felt when I first viewed it. Even more I am taken and moving in dance with the Angels. So calming so beauifully felt. I really needed to sit here and take a few moments to feel and be with this masterpiece. Once again you move me beyond any words to express all expression of what liove you transcend apon these moments if your talent. Thank you.
dochtersions
Thank you so much, dear Therese for your lovely reaction. Thinking of you, my friend.