Your name

Mie Olise Kjærgaard

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Your current location

Countryside, Småland in Sweden.

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Your favorite pastime

Biking in the sun—no hands

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Something you like

Bonfire with friends and kids, table tennis, building stuff.

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Something you dislike

Mansplaining

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Your defining characteristic

Lazy

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What would someone close to you say your defining characteristic is

That I am lazy, then go bananas to compensate.

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Your favorite artist

Rose Wylie, Marisol Escobar, Janet Cardiff

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Favorite word or phrase

“Haze" or "to be puzzled"

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What aspect of your work is most important to you

Strokes, colours. Working alone in the studio, listening to music.

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Who do you admire the most and why

My mother, she is full of good energy and always supporting.

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Your worst habit

Salty liquorice/postponing.

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The first thing you think of in the morning

Where am I? + Coffee!

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What have you always wanted to do and have not done

I'd like to trek: Chile, the Alps and New Zealand. And visiting some shipyards on the Falklands...

 

Your best decision

Having my kid

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Your worst decision

Squeezing in the dishes, laundry and other stupid practicalities on my way to the airport. Lost more than 20 flights on that account.

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Your favorite street and why

The pathways of Marstand, Sweden.

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What made you become the person you are

Combination of having to walk the long and curved road, coming from a small island in the outskirts of Denmark, and a big thirst for pushing myself into world and societies I never even knew existed (and probably withdrawing myself from—afterwards).

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Something that you treasure 

Indolence, salty liquorice, playing tennis + table tennis.

 

What would the child you once were think of the adult you have become

My perspective of adulthood was lots of kids, a big household, very serious—so I'd probably be disappointed ;-)

 

Your greatest fear

I hate things that move fast, jet skiing, roller coasters, frogs jumping and of course the near future of humankind.