If utopia is something utterly unimaginable, the road to utopia is more conceivable. That conceivability lies in reimagining the enervated detritus of our present world as the latent possibility of a future one. For decades, Jean Shin (https://jeanshin.com/) has made imbuing cast-off objects with new value the center of her artistic practice. Her work does what artists and entrepreneurs do best: force the market to reappraise material inputs when they are transformed anew.