Party of One
Format: Publication / Stitch bound books with hand made case /
Type: Individual Project /
Year: 2024 /
Responding to the prompt ‘an encyclopedia of an event’, Party of One documents the experience of waiting in line for four hours for a taste of Pliny the Younger, one of the most sought after craft beer in the Bay Area. Not knowing what to expect, Shane Li showed up to the brewery by himself only to find a long, slow moving line, with barely any internet connection. Being two hours away from home, all he could do was to observe every and anything around him to pass the time, and to document every little detail, including the ground every time the line advances. This tortuous experienced resulted in a conceptual encyclopedia, with enough observations to fill four volumes, one for each hour. The experience also led to beer - and it was worth the wait, every second of it.