JASON D'AQUINO // MATCHBOOK MINIATURES

GRAPHITE DRAWINGS ON FOUND SURFACES // MATCHBOOK MINIATURES // TATTOO

Jason D'Aquino's renown Miniature Matchbook Art, drawings on found objects and vintage surfaces in graphite. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/c49ygfBeiIQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Thinkspace

This series of graphite drawings is accomplished on the surface of a Human Skull. Featured are six of my favorite authors of Fiction. Their works lean toward the macabre. Edgar Alan Poe, Shirley Jackson (with nod to F. O’Connor), Clark Ashton Smith, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, and Mary Shelley.💀🎨⚰️✍️

This is an illuminated Human Skull - The theme is the Famous Authors in the Horror / Macabre Genres. Illustrations were performed using architectural draftin...

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Coagula

This work of Art is a fine illustrated Human Skull adorned with symbols of the mysteries of the Hermetic Orders.The pyramid and all seeing eye Are wreathed with the words ‘Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem’- a reference to the goal of Alchemy. The title of the work is taken from the motto ‘Solve et Coagula’ meaning Dissolve and Coagulate.

Portraits of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington loom largely, surrounded by the Mason’s compass, the number 33 , the crown and symbols of the Rosicrucians, the Bee and the Manticore. 🎨💀🤞🏼👁🐝🌞🌚⚰️🔮

This is an illuminated Human Skull - The theme is the Illuminati. Illustrations were performed using architectural drafting tools and high magnification gogg...

Jason D’Aquino
Jason D’Aquino
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Jason D’Aquino
Jason D’Aquino