Growing up in NYC, I was exposed early on to many cultures and ways of being.
My father David Forer was an artist and cartoonist, co-creator with my mother Margery Patricia Bregman Forer of Brett-Forer Greetings. They did it all, creation, Production, Sales, Marketing, Shipping, Order Processing, filing and sorting paperwork, phone order taking department. They’d get so busy during the holiday season. Boxes, paper, ink, big machines, scales, printing presses, cutting press, assembly finishing, tip-ons and border printing, office workers, bookkeeper, Hannah, secretaries, art director/department, factory foremen, printers, imprinters, typesetters, shipping department, factory and office equipment, big calculators with tape, addressograph. Hazel, Big Ethel with Martha and the girls. I loved going to the factory, down that hall with the door on the left and the el shape. I’m dizzy thinking about it.
El, hairpin, spear-eagle, acute, oblique, horizontal and vertical, all adds up to 90° in one dimension.
I grew up thinking I was dreaming cartoons made by my dad.