This was the first work by Cragg to enter the collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. It was made at a crucial point in Cragg's career, when his sculpture was developing a more monumental quality. With its coat-stand, suitcase and milk-churn held in the grip of a wriggling length of plastic sewage pipes, Kahzenarbeit is a modern reworking of the classical sculpture of Laöcoon, which depicts the said hero and his two sons being squeezed to death by a giant serpent.