Engine Works (Industry #6), 1989, portrays the manufacture of V-5 car engines. Initially, a squirrel on a wheel, fruitlessly chasing after his food (a dangling steak), provided the piece’s fictional energy source. When the artist’s wife, Irene, noted that squirrels do not eat meat, Gachot transformed it into a tiger. With the turn of a handle, the spinning shaft sets nine different figures into action performing nine different activities. Never in synch, each labors alone, unrelated to the others or toward any united end. They work as hard as the handle is turned, and if one stops, they all stop

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— Franklin Hill Perrell, from "Richard Gachot: An American Original"