Namngenerator: Västerbotten Namngenerator: Troms 2014 My work with this piece started with my fascination of the names of places in Västerbotten, a region in Northen Sweden. These names, which of course basically is a description of reality, I read as a manifestation of Västerbottens narrative tradition and the imagination and painterly language the dialect houses. I mean, “Brännmyran” or “Djupgroven” when you hear the name, you'll immediately begin to imagine the place! It struck me that the Troms dialect spoken in Tromsø had the same painterly language and the names of places got your imagination started in the same way and I created name generators for both of these regions. This project has also led me to immerse myself in dialectal words that describe the landscape, both in Sweden and Norway and I plan to continue this project with more name generators for other regions. Namngenerator: Västerbotten and Namngenerator: Troms was shown at the exhibition Øyet i hånden at Tegnerforbundet in Oslo, January 2015.