Line to Line
As a photographer, pilot, author, and entrepreneur, Jay B. Sauceda has ruminated upon the Texas identity from many angles. In 2013, the La Porte native and his wife, Priscilla Sauceda, launched Texas Humor, a company that makes T-shirts and hats he calls “clothing for the Texan state of mind.” In 2016, Sauceda dished out more Lone Star insight in Y’all: The Definitive Guide to Being a Texan, a field manual for aspiring Texans that sells big every holiday season.
Sauceda has also taken his Lone Star fascination to the sky, piloting his single-engine Cessna around the state’s entire 3,822-mile perimeter and taking photographs along the way. The images resulting from the six-day voyage—published in a 2016 book titled —capture the vermilion ribbon of the Red River, the snaky Sabine cutting a border with Louisiana, the rugged
