So you don't have fabulous plans to travel to a far off land for the Fourth of July holiday. Thanks to the affordable photographs available from San Francisco-based artist Noele Lusano, you can pretend that you spent the long weekend eating bangers and mash in London, enjoying Coq au vin in Paris or even demolishing some bratwurst in Berlin. Lucky for us, this is one emerging talent who really gets around.

"I originally started out wanting to pursue a career as a graphic designer, but in my early twenties, when I first moved to London, photography became a more natural output—new place, new feelings, and a lot of time spent alone wandering through the city," she explains. "My work is a diaristic amalgamation of documentary, landscape and portrait photography. Recently I've been exploring a variety of topics and how they relate conceptually, then visually—the presence of imaginary cities within the actual, the ambiance of interior and exterior spaces, scent as a tool to define time/memory, as well as broader themes of synchronicity, control, truth and deception, the romanticized past."

Translation: for just $55 you can buy one of her breathtaking 12 by 18 prints, and she will ship it to you anywhere in the world. Her subjects range from idyllic icons—carousels, windmills, picnics—to natural landscapes—close-ups of foliage, urban debris, beaches—with the common thread of Lusano's keen but melancholic eye for finding stark, subtle beauty hiding in cities across the globe.

"Since I came back from Berlin at the beginning of this year I've been trying to move my work in a more graphical direction by including blocks of color, text and symbols. I'm certain that city's minimalist approach to art played a big part, but in a lot of ways I'm also realizing that sometimes, a photograph is only capable of so much. The only way to communicate something bigger is to go in and abstract something that seems to have a fixed meaning on the surface."

New, affordable art for your walls that's chock full of deeper meaning... what better way to inspire what others will assume is just post-vacay glow?

For more information please visit www.quadrantgrove.net.

- Caroline Stanley

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