After calculating the frequency of use of each of the 177
irregular Old English verbs, researchers determined that the words that evolved most quickly into regular conjugational
forms were used significantly less than those that went unchanged
over time.
Thomas Downing, like Anthony Caro, was a great explorer of
forms and movement, and this untitled painting on canvas of repeat dot
irregular patterns is historically a fascinating picture when you consider it was executed prior to 1960,
over forty years before Yayoi Kusuma's overall dot paintings and Damien Hirst's recent massive spot paintings.