Jessica Auer " An Icelandic legacy, the word ‘saga’ means both ‘history’ and ‘story’. As memory dissolved behind the myths, these stories became part fiction and part documentary. In this body of work, I take inspiration from Viking Age history and Saga literature. Focusing on the narrative potential of landscape, I photographed archaeological and saga sites throughout the North Atlantic, resulting in a series of large-scale photographs that trace a westward journey from Sweden to the New World. These landscapes are largely ahistorical; they “contain” history yet invite speculation. I appreciate how this is our own doing. As we humans move about altering the landscape– new layers are laid, old ones redacted. As such, the landscape becomes a stratified space where subjective perspectives are encouraged to take shape."