DAMIEN HIRST's SPOTS ARE HIS MOST POPULAR AND WELL-RECOGNIZED MOTIF. Beginning with the first Spot painting created in 1986, Hirst established the essential characteristics of what was to become his most well-known series: colored circles arranged in a grid against a light background. the defining and most controversial art motif of the 1990's, hirst's spots celebrate THE ORGANIC AND THE MECHNICAL, throuhg a pefected sense of CHAOS as UNIFORMITY AND DIFFERENCE collide.