In Three Eggs, Laird Gough finds poetry in imperfection and regeneration. A single eye peers from one of the eggs, transforming a symbol of birth into something sentient and watchful. The surface, textured with sand, grounds the image in the natural world, echoing Gough’s interest in materials drawn from earth and her belief in beauty emerging from brokenness.

Across her practice, Gough works through gesture and intuition, often describing her process as a dialogue between body and clay, structure and collapse. Here, she extends that sensibility into painting, suggesting the fragility of life and the quiet persistence of spirit. The work’s surreal composition recalls Dalí’s own fascination with transformation and the alchemy of the everyday—a meditation on seeing, becoming, and the mysteries contained within the simplest of forms.