Ambient Painting (in bloom series)

Ross Manning’s Ambient Painting (in bloom series) repurposes the lenses found in data projectors that are used in the generation of digital imagery. The data projectors uses these filters to ampifiy and mix coloured light in the production of a digital image. Here, the salvaged filters are attached to canvases at 90 degrees. The available ambient light from the space in which the work occupies then generates 'passive' electronic imagery, projecting and reflecting colours from the filtered ambient light onto the canvas. This hybrid of electronic image production and painting evolves throughout the day responding to artificial and natural light sources in the space—each installation and moment in time produces an ephemeral composition. In this way they contain, in Manning’s words, ‘the proposition of an image’. Ambient Painting (in bloom series) is a continuation of the experimentation with dichroic colour filters Manning has explored throughout his other Ambient Painting works.