Social distancing was being practiced  long before the Covid Pandemic.  What was an informal, taken-for-granted way of being in public spaces became formalized, named, and semi-enforced with the outlines of footprints on floors across the country. The photos in this series capture the  pre-pandemic ritualized behaviors of two people occupying the same space.  The rules are simple to intuit: direct your attention to something printed or on a sceen, or, in the alternative,  turn, lean, or look the other way.   I don’t see these as images of solitude.  Perhaps they represent  instead a highly-socialized preformance of “aloneness” in public.