In 1999, just before the millennium, he moved to San Francisco. “This was the time for me to get clean and sober, so I thought ‘where is the best place to not be influenced by drugs and alcohol? San Francisco!’” His first foray into the world of masks had happened very early on in his life, inspired by the Michelle Pfeiffer Catwoman costume in Batman Returns (1992). He went around collecting materials and made himself his own version of the Catwoman suit. It came out so well that a photographer asked if he could photograph him in it.
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