Damien Hirst has said that his spot paintings are about interaction: while the colors are isolated from one another, they still manage to influence each other, interacting across the surrounding white space. All of the spot paintings are named after pharmaceutical compounds, and this allusion to drugs reinforces the theme of interaction - different elements (colors, chemicals, humans...) combining to create a greater influence. Hirst has said that he feels life is a composition, or an interaction between isolated elements.