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KISMET, WAY OF THE SWORD

Londa R. Marks  a  Firenze, Italy Studio News

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Updated: Apr 11, 2021

Rare digital creation of unique montaged scenes & original characters in a complete one of a kind tarot deck. Limited Edition 99 by Florence, Italy visionary Londa R. Marks, tarocchi digital art project with 80 similar card illustrations with 5 booklets. This tarocchi deck is entitled: Kismet, Way Of The Sword.


Edition available: 2/99

Hand printed and packaged at artist's atelier in USA. $1,200.

Accepted Payment: USD, Visa, MC, Bitcoin, Ethereum or Litecoin. BUY NOW





Details

Kismet, Way Of The Sword tarot deck includes:

  • 78 Major & Minor Arcana cards plus 2 extra.

  • Card Size: 2.75" x 4.75"

  • Handmade in the USA at the artist's atelier.

  • Limited Edition 99 (98 left).

  • Language: English.

  • Certificate of Authenticity & Historic Charting Entry vaulted at Alchemist Publishing.

  • Museum quality collector deck Giclée printed and crafted by artisan at artist's workshop. Durable long lasting cards. Water resistant. Deep gloss high definition finish. Excellent snap & shuffling characteristics.

  • Major & Minor Arcana deck beautifully packaged in full color rigid box Dimensions: 2.75" x 3.0" x 5.0"

  • 5 in-depth 30 page color cover booklets. Dimensions each: 1/4" x 2.75" x 4.75"

  • 3-Card layout game sheet.

  • Card care instructions.

Londa R. Marks has created numerous tarot decks published by Alchemist Publishing and Londa Tarot & Crow's Magick Tarot both published by U.S. Games Systems Inc.


Deck Inspiration

This tarocchi deck is rich in surrealistic and symbolic scenes inspired by rock music's popular bass legend Pete Way, founder of rock bands UFO (1969), WAYSTED (1982) and Pete Way Band (2019), an exemplar bassists known for playing a Thunderbird bass, high-spirited theatrical performances and many times wearing harlequin-like stage clothes. Londa R. Marks founded the Pete Way Facebook Group in January 2015 and created artwork for ads and marketing elements for the Group and her Rock Legend News magazines.



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Updated: Apr 11, 2021

Rare digital creation of a unique montaged scene. Limited Edition 9 by Florence, Italy visionary Londa R. Marks, extracted from her Kismet, Way Of The Sword Tarocchi digital art project with 80 similar card illustrations. This print is entitled: Path To Paradiso. The respective card is entitled: King Of Swords from the minor arcana suit.


Edition available: 1/9

Download TIFF: Asking $4,600

Accepted Payment: USD, Visa, MC, Bitcoin, Ethereum or Litecoin. BUY NOW



Digital Art Print & TIFF

Path To Paradiso is from a series of rare limited edition digital art by Florence, Italy visionary Londa R. Marks. This print of Pete Way depicts a surreal scene from her Kismet, Way Of The Sword project featuring Pete Way and Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Digital art in TIFF format is available at londarmarks.com and wayofthesword.com. Art includes artist's brands/seals, edition number, certificate of authenticity and historic charting (owner documented and vaulted at Alchemist Publishing).


The Day When Dante Went to Hell

Thursday was Dantedì (Dante’s Day): March 25th in Florence, Italy. It is unanimously recognized as the starting day of Dante’s trip through the underworld. It lasts seven days, so we expect him in Paradise by next Monday.

The intensity of Path To Paradiso depicts a poetic Paradise as a series of concentric spheres surround the Earth, consisting of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Fixed Stars, the Primum Mobile and finally, the Empyrean. Written in the early 14th century, allegorically, the poem represents the soul’s ascent to God. During the course of his journey, Dante meets and converses with several blessed souls. He is careful to say that these all actually live in bliss with God in the Empyrean: But all those souls grace the Empyrean;

and each of them has gentle life though some sense the Eternal Spirit more, some less.



Path to Paradiso is a striking art piece with a unique focal point for creative intellectual conversation.






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Rare digital creation of a unique montaged scene & original character. Limited Edition 9 by Florence, Italy visionary Londa R. Marks, extracted from her Kismet, Way Of The Sword Tarocchi digital art project with 80 similar card illustrations. This print is entitled: Nine Circles & Seven Gates of Oceanids. The respective card is entitled: Page Of Swords from the minor arcana suit.


Edition available: 1/9

Download TIFF. Asking $4,600

Accepted Payment: USD, Visa, MC, Bitcoin, Ethereum or Litecoin. BUY NOW




Description


Kismet, Way Of The Sword Tarocchi digital art project, inspired by rock's bass legend Pete Way and Florence, Italy's Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, integrates an underlying foundation of cryptography: the art of writing codes or solving codes with stylized characters and scene designs intertwined with mythological-esque concepts, surreal theatrics, music and poetically magical environments.


Nine Circles & Seven Gates Of Oceanids


The mythological nymph daughters, the Oceanids, form a chorus of the tragedy ahead. Through the seven gates where legends that rival the myths are found is a reminder that the journey of the soul towards God requires a trip through Hell.


The harlequin named the Page of Swords, warns Dante and Virgil as he points to this significant scene surrounding nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth. The enigmatic Page has the ability to conceal his own nature and possess sought after secrets as he stays cool headed in dangerous situations. He consumes and hides omens only to use them if necessary on this complex journey.

Astrological elements related to this card's art are: air, earth of air - Pages are earth and the suit of swords is air.


The mythological montaged art piece provides a unique focal point for intellectual conversation.


Additional Details

Genre: Surrealism, Montage, Fantasy, Eclectic, Metaphysical

Format / Size Download high resolution TIFF 824.3 MB - 36.17 " x 59.14" - 91.8718 cm x 150.2156 cm - 3472.32 x 5677.44 pixels.


Specifications

  • Limited Edition of 10 Giclee & TIFFs combined (image is included as a card in a limited edition of 200 tarocchi decks with additional art elements and one of 80 similar illustrations, making it another work of art and part of a story).

  • You are purchasing the full non-commercial rights to this creation.

  • You may download the full-sized creation to display or print for personal use.

  • Includes artist's brands/seal & numbered.

  • Certificate of authenticity.

  • Historic charting (owner documented and vaulted at Alchemist Publishing).

  • All sales are final.

What You are Buying

You are buying the highest resolution image in TIFF format with artists signature seal/brand and limited edition numbered copy registered in Alchemist Publishing historic charting vault. You are buying a digital creation to be owned. Upon purchase, the buyer will be given the right to use, distribute and display the creation for non-commercial purposes only. Buyers own this unique copy and can re-sell the creation on a secondary market.


As with any physical creation, the buyer of this work of art will be able to do what they would normally do with any purchased physical piece making digital creations more valuable.


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