A good deal of Shein’s design and sculpture work is flat-pack, which is partly for the practical purposes of shipping. But even more, he says, “I really like the idea of collapsible structure and the way parts comprise a whole. I don’t want to talk too much about quantum physics because I know very little about it, but it’s based on this idea that there are finite particles that work within the phenomenal superstructure that is reality. That’s what interests me about it.”