My great uncle Sal has been making mask as far back as the mid-20s when he was a teenager he actually made them through his entire life until his death in 1995 that’s over 70 years I have a large part of the collection this mask right here is a certain style he did in the 60s he would do a mask of John Wayne, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley but he would make them look gay since Sal was gay he thought everybody was gay in someway or another that’s why he liked to hypnotizing people to get that out of them back in the 30s when he performed in clubs he would hypnotize a young man that he figured out was in the closet and pull him out that would be Sals new friend that week he was excellent at it When I was going through Sals photography with the masks he did tons of portfolios with them and that’s why I started doing 20 years ago like this image here