All-over dot painting

He set down a dot, waited for the paint to spread on the canvas, then drew a square around it, repeating this until dots and squares covered the picture. The paint is thin, so every dot bleeds differently. Most dot paintings are blue, and most titles are the date of completion and a number, such as 12-V-70 #172. Where, in What Form, Shall We Meet Again (1970) is seen as the start of the dot-painting period; before his death in 1974 he also made dot paintings in mostly black.

Look first at a single dot and its square, then step back and see where the whole field of dots is heading.

Which way does the field of dots seem to flow?