Situated in northern Iceland, the Saga Blind is a culmination of a month-long experiment into the exploration of the horizon as a mapping and measuring device of a particular remote locale. There, horizon is not only a geographical, but also a meteorological, agricultural, floral and geological condition. In a remote, mostly unmapped location, we recorded various local horizons with all the means at our disposal – from GPS mapping, to photography to watercolor painting.

The Saga Blind was sited and constructed out of found materials to synthesize this research and commemorate an event that happened some 300 years ago, was never documented but is alive in the local folklore. The tales describe the collapse of one stone pillar, part of a pair once, located further out in a fjord as a love story of two elves, a husband and wife, who were crossing the fjord, but were turned to stone in the middle of the passage. Centuries later, sometime in the 1800’s, Mr. Elf has collapsed into the see, and to this day Mrs. Elf was by herself in the water.

In the Saga Blind, the viewer experienced the horizon when Mr. and Mrs. Elf were still together.