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)
Oh I jumped right it a felt myself soring righ alone. Amazingly beautiful . Just like you. I love the vibrant pull that radiates beyong the flight. Stunning!
~ Your poem of Jacob's ladder has been on my mind all day. Funny how the uinverse keeps us together.
Indeed, so very special, my dear friend. Thank you for sharing your lovely words, and stay save, Therese.
wow, xoxo's comment is beautiful (and true). Very loving...
Jacomina, I'll comment on everything soon...I'm finishing my dentistry, and a few other health matters, and I'll be much more verbal then...But this bird fractal is just exquisite. Your color contrasts are very powerful, and beautiful. You highlight the edges in a deep crimson-brown. And the 2 "wings" are almost huge saws soaring through the universe. The head is almost "chrome," it's just amazing. And you surround it with sleek elegant birds, and with bird "ghosts"...The main (big) bird seems to be flying above the clouds: The clouds are beneath it: The bird seems to be flying just below the cosmos, and below heaven. And the two variations are as stunning as the original. You really used the new colors beautifully (and, in the 3d version, you turned half the birds into beautiful dark spirits...like long sleek crows). I'd write more, but I can't, right now, but I'll be back for more soon.
I hope the heat wave has gone away. We had one here too, I know how overwhelming they can be. I hope you are holding on, Jacomina, and enduring the health issues that have descended on you. And I hope you are able to find light through all the struggle. Lots of heaing and love to you. I'll be back soon. Take care on every level, mark
(ps, i got artist of the month, this time for my art rather than my writing...I was very surprised, it came "out of the blue," as we say---out of the distant sky. I'm now working on the moderator's questions, and I fear my answers will be very brief...I'm here very seldom---I didn't think more than 5 people even knew I was 'alive'...but I'm in "good company," as you won it a few times too...and you deserved it wholly)
Oh dear friend, I'm so pleased with your election, it makes me really happy. At the moment I have no words, I just don't succeed and make all typos. Of course I'm also very grateful for the beautiful words you wrote in your comment. Thank you very much, Mark.
These look very neat!
Thank you very much, Amanda.