‘Zane’s Wake’ is an on-going, multi-volume book project that examines text as a departure point for geographical and personal study.  Part genealogical inquiry, part visual travelogue,  ‘Zane’s Wake’ draws upon my familial ties to the writer, Zane Gray, most known for his Western novels.  This project takes essays from the writer’s sporting oeuvre and maps out the route of his adventures.  Following his trail --much changed by the passage of time  -- I revisit sites, research their precedence, and visually reinterpret the experience through a series of paintings and drawings.  ‘The Great River of the Gulf’ is the first in the series and it explores a noteworthy fishing trip taken by the writer in 1920s in the Florida Keys.  The resulting book showcases the accumulated imagery, overlaid moments decades apart seen from two distinctly different vantage points.