6 am // July 29, 2016
self portraits, October 2017
I’m trying to write something down, maybe trying to keep some sort of memory.
I feel incomplete a lot.
Not physically, not anything outward. I’m not really sure. I think my brain is empty. I think someone has robbed me. I think I’ve robbed myself. I’ve ripped out all of my memories and shoved them into a camera and I have none in my brain anymore. They’re there of course, because I have the photographs; I’ll always have the photographs.
Sometimes I cry because I can’t remember a moment. Maybe that’s why I take pictures. To keep a moment that I don’t even remember - I have it in photograph form just so I know it existed at some point. To know that all of this isn’t fake, that I’m not some sort of figment of my imagination.
Maybe that’s why I photograph myself; to prove to myself that I’m actually real. I want to know that I’m there. But I don’t see my outer body, it’s like someone has turned me inside out. My mind is on the outside, but it’s falling apart.
Maybe I take photographs to keep my mind from falling right out of my head.
- Amber Ortolano
my little sister is so fucking talented guys idek
Amber Ortolano. Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again, March 2015.
(by amber ortolano) Polaroid from around 5 years ago when I was around 12.
In other news I’m still finding myself in this healing process
brilliant, brilliant young woman
Accidentally deleted this oops!
(by amber ortolano) Documenting the renovation of the office under my apartment.
My amberortolano pages in one of my visual diaries for conceptual process class. Colours! So delicious.
4x6 (aka postcard) - $5
8x12 (aka photographic) - $15
Amber Ortolano. Color As Therapy Vol. Two, January 2015
Amber Ortolano. I am almost invisible (drowning), January 2015
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More photos from earlier's self portrait and color therapy session.
Amber Ortolano. Paint My Bones, July 2014
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