Plata Rasa

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CHAPTER:
Between Living and Dreaming
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CONCEPT:
Vemödalen
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Tranquility-Harmony
Sight-Sound

Plata Rasa

n.
the lulling sound of a running dishwasher, whose steady maternal shushing somehow puts you completely at peace with not having circumnavigated anything solo.

Latin plata, plate + rasa, blank or scraped clean. Pronounced “pla-tuh rah-suh.”

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