Londa Firenze Studio

Firenze Studio LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO MAGAZINE

FIRENZE ITALY

NOVEMBER 2018

londa r. marks LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO FIRENZE ITALY

NOVEMBER 2018

When you design something you have to have cost in mind, but at the same time you can’t just think of money because if you start to think of money, you stop thinking of ideas.

LONDA, FIRENZE ITALY, PHOTO FROM 2016 ARCHIVES

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LONDA FIRENZE STUDIO 2018 Issue Magazine & Website Designed, Developed, Coded at Londa Studio Firenze, Italy Published By Alchemist Publishing Firenze, Italy 2014 Londa R. Marks Founder Rock Legend News 2017-2018 World Wide Readership/Viewers Approx:130,000 2015 Londa R. Marks is Founder/Administrator of Pete Way Facebook Group

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This is a Londa Firenze Studio Issue featuring some of Londa’s evolving studio photos along with some of her art. Londa has resided in her Firenze Italy studio since 2014. It is a building built in the 15th century Renaissance period, on property formerly owned by Renaissance artist sponsor: Lorenzo de’ Medici and family.

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Nurture

assimilating

Renaissance Faire & Florentine Sunsets

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ze Studio

Philosophy

Florence, Italy is a city of studios and workshops of artisans painting, writing, playing music, making violins, making jewelry, sculpting, making toys and such, each with its own unique qualities. During my studio's interior design process it was important to select furnishings for my studio that allowed each room to be a unique creative work room while sustaining the Renaissance atmosphere of the builduing — and my soul. Even the dining room has a heavy 9 ft., Renaissance style table big enough and heavy enough for creative endeavors, perfect for a gathering of philosophers to exhange ideas and feast with Italian Chianti and Prosecco. And it is well known that Chianti is an important tool for the creative process...

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londa r. marks Art & Music St udio

Florence, Italy

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Comfort Zone TOMORROW CLUB

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Art

drawing upon

Transcendent Thoughts

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Serendipity

Environment is particularly important to artists who are highly sensitive synchronicity to their surroundings. You become your environment, who you surround yourself with, where you live. Being in a community of creative thinkers and like-minds can evoke a positive difference in how artists function and perform.

Like much of what has happened with me pertaining to Florence, Italy — since I first became aware of Lorenzo de’ Medici on his birthday January 1, 2009 (born 1449) — unusual circumstances or, kismet, revealed an available space in a Florentine building, again in the month of January of 2014. The building was built during the Renaissance period on land once owned by the Medici and during Lorenzo's rule.

Since Catholic elementary school I’ve felt destined to be in Florence. Even without knowing the Italian language and on my first day in Italy, February 11, 2014, it felt like home.

On Valentine’s Day, I was ready to view my studio but was informed it would not be available to be seen until — my birthday, February 26. I acquired it that day. It was made available to move into on April 1, 2014 after they lovingly brush painted it to my choice of colors. Watching the painters caress the 500 year old walls day after day was heart warming.

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The difficult task of becoming per(Natural Pasture Death Hide/Leather Rug, Faux Leather Sofa, Antique Furnishings) manent residence in Italy was granted March 10, 2016. My Via Tornabuoni location, named after Lorenzo de’ Medici’s mother, Lucrezia de' Tornabuoni, is a design venue where Ferragamo, Cavalli, Gucci, Bulgari and other designers also call home. Street artists and street musicians perform here near the Firenze Hard Rock Cafe, a few steps from there classical music and opera are performed in the Piazza della Signoria. World class art museums and antique galleries are all part of this thriving creative village.

A lot of ups and downs, struggles, hard work and sacrfices make dreams possible, but desire and love for something draws upon an almost mystical type of strength that overrides everything else. You do things to get to that dream you aren't even aware you are doing at the time, only to be revealed later, when the time is right.

I have always studied and worked on creative projects daily, but to wake up each day, look at and live in art from the Renaissance that I have loved since childhood makes me want to be more prolific. My studio has just begun. It's a work in progress. Without a work in progress though, what is life? If I could only find a way to live 300 or more years. For now though, I know I am in the perfect place suited to my concept of Art & Music synchronicity — or, serendipity. —Londa R. Marks

Music Salon

A quote I love regarding Pete Way’s band, Waysted, that is fitting to all artists:

“If they ever really grow up the magic will surely be gone.”

—Paul Suter, From Waysted, "The Good, The Bad, The Waysted," Kerrang! Magazine

Sanctuary inviting

Pensive Moments

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Emotion considering

Irony

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Alchemy chemistry

Elixir Of Life

In 1993 when I started Alchemist Publishing

my studio was in San Francisco. I created a series of original characters in oil paints on handmade Egyptian papyrus that I ordered from Egypt. The painting on the left is the one that started the series, entitled, "Who Are You Really?"

I never actually had an answer for that question. But I do now after making a series of dreams happen.

The reason I named my company Alchemist Publishing was because alchemy is 'any magical power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value.' That was how I began my journey to my ultimate dream of being in Florence, Italy, out of nothing, but my ideas.

Though not from Italy, at least in this life, strangely, it feels like I have come full circle — back to Italy — and only 1600 miles away from Egypt. And closer to sun...

An important part of the studio, the bar, is still being restored by my antique restorer but will be in pictures in the next issue.

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Firenze Studio

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The Way of t he Sw ord

love's penance

Eyes closed shut painted psychedelic pensive In hammering madness Sleep deprived burning agonizing senses Paying love’s penance Dreams scattered with never ending confusion Poetic lyrics and passion-edged tunes Codes sung on a tongue of red rot Through crusted lips burning blood-hot Paying love’s penance

The Way of t he Sw ord

Conqueriing illusion Seduced by confusion Riveted to nether The punisher's tormentor Trapped stages of suffered agony Thrust into the tragedy Railed and nailed by obscure allure Conquering an illusion evermore

PHOTOS & POETRY BY LONDA

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New Release Scheduled for November 2019 THUNDERBIRD SOUL TAROT The month of August 2018, Londa created a couple of tarot-esque surrealism scenes for Pete Way Facebook Group which she manages and includes some of her artwork for the past four years. Then, the release of David Bowie Starman tarot kit was published

by LLewellyn which motivated her to develop a few working ideas for a tarocchi deck devoted to Pete Way - even though 7 years ago she vowed to never do another tarot deck after having done thirteen. You

can’t fight Fate though, so this deck will include 80 cards/scenes and book/booklet and is projected to be complete and published by end of 2019, early 2020.

View sample cards for Thunderbird Soul Tarocchi in the Unlisted, Unpublished, Temporary Working File in magazine format: THUNDERBIRD SOUL MAGAZINE

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