This image was created from the painting of the same name, which was reproduced on the cover of Kenneth Janes Hughes's "Jackson Beady - Life and Art", Canadian Dimension, vol 14. no. 2, 1979. In the publication, Hughes describes Rebirth as follows,
A classic Beardy piece. Geese are amphibians and this pair rest on symbolic earth and water while their heads are up in the air, their other realm. The water indents to form also a nest. Geese are material and spiritual beings and the materiality of this pair is suggested by their contact with the earth, their spirituality by the proximity of their heads to the sun, the representative of Kitche Manitou. Male and female geese here join together to produce a new generation (the foetus) and thus ensure continuity of the species. They, too, however, were once eggs, and we are reminded of this when we follow the outline of the conjoined birds. The back of the left bird sweeps wider than the one on the right with the overall result that we have a big end and a little end in the manner of an egg.

The geese are the vehicles for a universal statement. The divided sun represents Kitche Manitou who contains all the dualities, including male and female. The heads of the two geese meet against the background of the sun to demonstrate that they are particular representations of the universal process. To support the notion of universality, we see that the foetus seems to be in a womb rather than an egg and the unborn creature looks as if it might begin to take on human characteristics. The red base to the picture is the colour of blood, life, and spirituality and the black and white of the birds represent a harmonious union of opposites. Sweeping organic curves dominate and the touching of the top of the beaks, together with the near-touching of the bottom of the beaks, create a sense of controlled tension. Life lines move directly from the sun to the centre of the two birds to support the notion of them as concrete universals (op. cit., p. 33).