Eggers’ drawings and paintings feature strange, powerful images of animals, and plaintive text. Phrases such as “Don’t Cry For This One He Went To Law School” accompany an anteater and “Courage: May It Be Common” appears next to a sprinting rabbit. The resulting effect is oddly spiritual, often profound, and sometimes even humorous. Eggers says of these works: 

 

“I was trained in the classical way of drawing — to be able to capture a likeness or shape in a realistic way. As a disciple of Manet and Caillebotte, for years I painted people in a representational way, usually in some slightly surreal or (I hoped) thought- provoking setting or situation. Then I stopped painting in earnest for the better part of fifteen years.

 

Recently, I’ve come back to drawing and painting, with animals as the subject. I began drawing bison from photos I’d taken in Alaska and Idaho, and once I’d finished a given drawing, it seemed incomplete without text—and the text that seemed most appropriate usually involved the bison in dialogue with its creator. Sometimes the animals question their existence or purpose. Sometimes a passage from the Old Testament surrounds them and in some way gives them a sense of mission. But usually there exists tension between the animal and an unseen God, and in all cases I try to bring out the soul of the animal in some way."