Writes Pearlstein: "In this piece, language and image function as a visual onomatopoeia. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Evolution functions as a metaphor and structural principle throughout: the evolution of a thought, a word, a form, the species and so on. This gets played out through visual transformations forming thematic links. In the end, it's only the beginning, and 'Bam' is the sound of an explosion, a pre-verbal exclamation, a name?"