 The word sculptures create individual words or phrases that evoke a multiplicity of meanings.Commissioned in 1997 by the artistic collective Bernadette Corporation, Pierson's video "Past Life in Egypt" is a collaboration with Ursula Hodel, who plays an outrageous and glamorous dominatrix in the video.At one point, her character sadly recounts her past life as a wicked queen of Egypt, in love with a much younger man and impervious to the suffering of her people.