Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1955 Forakis ya ƙirƙiri hoton don Gidan Gida shida yana karantawa
da Allen Ginsberg, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, da kuma Philip Whalen, wanda Kenneth Rexroth ya shirya. A cikin 1958 Forakis ya koma Birnin New York. A wannan lokacin ne a New York a ƙarshen 1950s-1960s cewa Forakis ya fito a matsayin fitaccen memba na duniyar fasaha, kuma, tare da masu zane-zane Mark di Suvero, Ed Ruda, Dean Fleming, Robert Grosvenor, Anthony Magar, Tamara Melcher, Forrest <unk> Frosty <unk> Myers, David Novros da Leo Valledor, ya kafa Park Place Gallery (1963<unk>67), wani sarari na musamman na masu zane-zane. Wurin Park ya zama samfurin don wuraren zane-zane na gwaji na shekarun 1970.