Project 1.1: the brief Ft. initial notes

She said, ‘what is “historicity”?’ ‘When a thing has history in it. Listen. One of those two Zippo lighters was in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s pocket when he was assassinated. And one wasn’t. One has historicity, a hell of a lot of it. As much as any object ever had. And one has nothing .... You can’t tell which is which. There’s no “mystical plasmic presence”, no “aura” around it.

Philip K. Dick The Man in The High Castle (1962)

– In this brief you will design a new object into, and in response to an existing collection.