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'Programmed Shape Development' is a wall-mounted kinetic sculpture, made in polished aluminium, with double-axel discs mounted on metal rods projecting from the surface and four motors, one connecting to each quadrant of discs.

The discs spin around, reflecting the light and the surrounding environment and creating complex optical effects in which the discs seem to share the same surface despite their staggered composition.

Barry Martin wrote at the time: 'statically developed shapes generate new classes of shapes and forms in movement. Front and back shapes move independently from each other. The aluminium shapes were thought of as fragments of the space they inhabited'.

The circular or rotary movement is typical of Martin's work of the 1960s - in a contemporary interview, he described his interpersonal relationships in terms of a circular movement between himself and the outside world.