Originally conceived for an evening of performance pieces at the MAC (The McKinney Avenue Contemporary) in Dallas, Texas, Potato Hierarcy was a combination of absurd dance and abstract conceptual performance. During the piece, a masked and suited protagonist waltzed with white dress shirts filled with twenty pounds of raw potatoes. As it progressed, the movements became more abstracted and angry with neckties serving as nooses. The dance humorously culminated with spuds flying all about the performance space and into the audience.

I was asked to reproduce this piece for Teatro Hispano de Dallas a year later. Thus, began my relationship with the theater that would further my exploration of performance, as well spur as my frequent formative explorations into the interior of Mexico.

A description of "A Downward Climb" also created for Teatro Hispano de Dallas can be found here.

This piece was also peformed a third and final time as part of my first solo show, "Corporate Whirled," at the Lawndale Arts Center in Houston, Texas. The strewn evidence of the performance, potatoes, shirts and ties, were left as an installation in the center of the gallery. After a month on display, many of the potatoes began to sprout and others to stink.