In 2019, Storihle was invited to an artist residency at Artica Svalbard, supported by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo. The residency took the artist to Longyearbyen, one of the world’s northernmost inhabited areas, situated on an archipelago that sits on the frontline of climate change, warming six times faster than the global average. During their stay, Storihle was struck by the patriarchal and racist names given to the surrounding glaciers, mountains and valleys, reflecting the dominant power structures that have operated on this disputed piece of land. When the Norwegian Polar Institute asked the public to submit new names for previously unnamed pieces of land during their stay, Storihle proposed “Grønstrømpeneset,” which in English translates to “Cape Greenstocking,” for a cape in Krossfjorden, located on the west coast of the Svalbard archipelago. The proposal honored the first female botanist and environmentalist, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen, who in 1907 disembarked at the glacier Lilliehöökbreen, facing the cape that has now been named Grønstrømpeneset. Resvoll-Holmsen was the first woman to carry out botanical research in Svalbard and also published the compendium Svalbard flora in 1927. The map is produced by the Norwegian Polar Institute and called Krossfjorden (S100)-A6.
