Studio Notes

There’s something about a winter train ride that lends itself to reflection. I was traveling from Copenhagen to Aarhus — a familiar route, through the Danish countryside, but somehow it always feels a little different in winter. Winter landscape seen from a train between Copenhagen and Aarhus in Denmark. Outside the window, the Danish countryside blurred into soft whites and greys, small clusters of trees standing quietly against the snow-covered fields. As usual, I had broug

The coffee was cold before I remembered to drink it. I’d made it with good intentions — fairly strong, with whole milk (I’m Danish, after all) — before settling in to finish a sketch I’d started the night before. I had the idea just as I was getting into bed, so I’d scribbled it in the margin of an old notebook, hoping it would still make sense in the morning. It mostly did. Most mornings like this take place in my studio in Copenhagen, where I divide my time between acting w