The first alarm goes off, I press snooze at high speed and turn around, the sweetest dream happens there between the snoozes that I press. I’ve always been amazed at how deep sleep you can get in a 5-minute nap in a window. Dreams with a beginning, a middle and an end, entire worlds are created. After 20-30 minutes I get up with difficulty. I’m not a lark at all, but I try.

First coffee and I’m almost always speechless. This is the moment when I enjoy being alone, sometimes I turn on the music, sometimes I sit on the balcony to see the sky and the sun. I make a second coffee and open my calendar, computer and see what I have to do during the day. In the second cafe, phones will also start. The difficulty with reality remains.

I am going out of the house. Until I go to my workshop in Kipseli, I think about many things, so I consider this time to be creative. Cork, maybe, but I’m definitely in working order. The completion of each of my projects involves many stages and stations, and almost every new creation requires the exploration of an idea, the search for materials, and many kilometers to completion. So the days go like this. The first stop is to search for materials, and the road leads me either to Kalamiote for fabrics, or to Athens for PVC, or to Kallithea for plexiglass, or to Piraeus for metal, or to Penteli for marble. Sometimes I go to Kostas’ workshop near the airport where I work and make prints, the ideal machines that he has in his workshop are robots that give me a lot of freedom for my work. Every time I go there I feel great excitement because this is where many of my projects leave the concept and digital layout space and take on their first physical form. I’m heading to my workshop in Kipseli.

“In the evenings, I’m quite creative, thoughts take shape, and I feel like time is expanding, and it gives me the feeling that anything is possible.”

I arrive at the Hive, in Nuqmas, usually loaded with things. Unfinished project, new frame, pieces of marble. There I meet Olga, Vincent and Katerina. Nukmas, in addition to our workshop, is also an exhibition space, we organize group exhibitions of artists and other cultural events. We make sure to get together for at least an hour to work together on what needs to be done in the space. Planning, preparation of the premises for the exhibition, exhibition design, wall painting, newsletters, e-mail. After we finish the work related to the common area, I go up to my studio and continue my personal work. I collect, mark up and write. I paint with words, lines, colors, creating the works that I have in mind. I hang a few projects on the wall and bide my time. At the same time, I start a new project, lay out my materials on the floor, on my desk, and start. At some point in the day, Erifili comes from the workshop, we need to talk about the performance that we are preparing in Elefsina. What form will the celebration of world change finally take? Which color; Collaboration on the concept of visual work, but not only. I make some sketches and we arrange the next meeting with Irini, Fanis and Dimitris. The joint work on the play is very interesting. The arts intersect, the visual works come to life.

I leave the lab and return home hungry and tired. We will cook together with Crito, we will eat and talk for hours. What did you do today; Did it work out what you wanted? The conversation lasts for hours, and we will always talk about art, about confectionery, about what worries us, what we are happy about, what we want to change and what we would not change at all. Creativity is life. The search for the embodiment of an idea, the most beautiful in the world, even if it seems difficult to someone. Being able to see your idea come to life is freedom.

This is the time I love the most, this silence of the night enchants me. In the evenings I am quite creative, thoughts take shape (sometimes they even go to paper), and I feel that time expands and gives me the feeling that everything is possible. In the evening there is time to think. I am again the last light, fading on my way. I’m going to bed, I’ve been up all night again and I won’t be able to get up early. Tomorrow I will try to sleep early.

Currently Katerina Haru, together with her Noucmas partners, is preparing a Christmas print show, which will take place on December 16 for the third year. This is a group exhibition dedicated to various printing techniques.

At the same time, he is working with an opera group on the creation of the show “Celebration of the Change of the World”, which will be presented in Elefsina in September 2023. And he is preparing his solo exhibition at the Sobering Gallery in Paris, which will open in 2023.