“Everything around us is falling apart. It’s all falling apart right now and there’s no clues anywhere on how to stop the pandemonium—the realities, the horror, the ignorance.

We find it more and more anxiety-inducing each day to watch this tragedy unfold as we sit in solitude while stay-at-home orders thankfully confine us to our homes. Hold Me Steady is palpably titled to give its audience the sensation we are all feeling: that we want to be close and intimate with others once again. We each impact one another in various ways, often striving to break out of our constructive boxes, unlike the way COVID-19 has confined us to specific places, limiting our current creative and social aspirations.”

— Jennifer Marion and Andre Ramos-Woodard (Beaumont, TX, and Albuquerque, NM)