I have so many favorite photos of my uncle Sals works, this is one of them right here, in 1968 when I was 12 years old my dad took me into Manhattan to see the Empire State Building and Times Square and then to great uncle Sals studio on 36 Street and seventh Avenue a bazaar place it was also where he lived four giant rooms masks everywhere when we got there he was doing some ballerina portfolios for the New York school of ballet some of the girls were very young like me and then there were older ones but they all looked amazing I was at the age where I started looking at women we hung out for a while it was great the masks always freaked me out because we had one in our basement since I was six years old, at one point I was scared to go down to the basement anyway if you see the mask directly in the back of Sals head that’s the mask that Lisa and I have in our dining room we also have a mask room here in our house in Florida 16 of them hanging on the walls we also have mask hanging in different rooms, when I inherited Sals a state in 2002 there were 110 masks I have 60 of them now The mask I’m talking about was created by Sal 1937 sal named her the bitch she was suppose to be in the worlds fair with five other masks that Sal made something happen it didn’t work out she has been pissed off ever since what’s unique about her and a bunch of The other masks is there ingredients In the papier-mâché mix Haitian voodoo dust, pyramid scrapings in the from Egypt, Cambodian opium, secret potions from around the world, and then of course there is Sals secret ingredients that will be discussed in the book most of the big masks assisted Sal in his mind reading acts and hypnotizing people in the 40s and 50s you have no idea of the energy flying through this house through these masks besides Sal using his mask in his acts they were also in a bunch of Broadway plays and amusement parks Sal always had photography studios as far back as the late 20s if he wasn’t taking pictures he was making masks I inherited this state in 2002 and I did over 60 portfolios with the mask in the background they do hypnotize the models