I would like to acknowledge those who encouraged and helped me bring the "Sweetheart" series from my archives to the gallery walls. First and foremost my wife of thirty-two years, Chrys -- arts & humanities in medicine, art educator; Calder, son -- conceptural artist, curator, critical writer; Micaela, daughter -- art history, arts in medicine, arts in public health. My friend of forty years writer, curator Jane Livingston, who gave me my first one-man exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; PhotoLucida Critical Mass 2013, for which I was a Top 50 Winner; Aline Smithson, photographer, founder and editor of LENSCRATCH; Julie Grahame, Editor-in-Chief of aCurator.com; Gus Kayafas of Palm Press and his crew of masters of the gelatin silver print, Brandon James, Jordan Kessler, Matt Kloss; Arlette Kayafas of Gallery Kayafas; Richard McCabe, curator of photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; Videographer Clif Brewer; Bob Self, photographer; Doug Eng, photographer; Steve Trigg, physican, photographer; all my fellow studiomates at CoRK Arts District; and a special thank you to my friend and trusted studio assistant, Mark Painter Pariani, photographer, architect.