Created during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Better off Alone is a video work in which I aimed to reflect the loss, isolation and longing that was specific to queer people around the closure of queer bars and spaces. Documented in front of the Eagle Bar in Los Angeles, Coral Lobera, appears dressed in full leather regalia, stands against the facade, on a quiet, empty Santa Monica boulevard. Filmed, slowed-down, the video gestures toward cruising postures, performance. Ends with a piano cover of DJ Alice’s Better off Alone, a club anthem, danced