in a day and age where most art is first viewed on a computer screen, the scale of d'aquino's miniature drawings are lost without intimate interaction. matchbooks became the preferred canvas for d'aquino's miniature masterpieces because they impose their own built in scale reference. "i love the matchbook because it is a nostalgic, gritty, cheap little souvenir. i enjoy taking such a worthless surface and turning it into a coveted piece of art."