
Your name
Mie Olise Kjærgaard
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Your current location
Countryside, SmaÌŠland 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.