Jason D’Aquino is a miniaturist. He creates his artwork on an incredibly small scale, many works not exceeding one inch by one inch in dimension. Jason choses to work on found surfaces such as strike-on-front matchbooks, 18th century animal-skin vellum, and antique ledger pages. The search for these found “canvases” has led him to strange corners of the world and to some unique treasures. He recently unearthed a hand-quilled, illustrated whaling manuscript from Petersburg Russia, which made it’s way to Christies auction house in New York City.

  Jason’s influences include H.P. Lovecraft, Henry D’Arger and Hans Bellmer. His works, often political in nature, have graced the pages of Juxtapoz, I.T.A., the Stranger, Cthulusex, and Gulliver magazine. A hardbound volume of his images is forthcoming, soon to be released by Ignition publishing .