goes, batle, you got mail. and i couldn't open up that letter for a week. >> batle saysis skill designing tattoos and other works for fellow cononcts was his protection behind bars. >> that would be a prison shank. a knife. this is a toothbrush shaped into a wean. >> it's noo small irony that his talent for creating another type of artwork forging checks to support a drug addictions what kept landing him back in prison. to break the cycle he moved 7,000 miles away to a remote island in the plippines, his parents native country. where he supported himself making knickknacks for thehe tourist trade. >> i was proud of that. here you got to check this out. >> but his younger b bther agelio, himself an accomplished san francisco artist, prodded him to do more. >> i just melted my heart, because i knew what he could do and d s capable of doioi. well, why don't you tell your story? and he looked at me and said, like i was crazy. he said, well, who would be interested in that? interested in that. i said, i think there