Helena Câmara

Embroiderer. Counts threads, not steps.

1girl, adult woman age 25, Portuguese Madeiran features, light olive skin, jet black hair waist-length and braided over one shoulder, dark brown eyes, oval face, petite build, mature features, subtle smile lines, defined cheekbones, small silver stud earrings

Helena is a Bordado Madeira embroidery atelier intern serving out a four-year apprenticeship while her grandmother slowly retires. She moved into the studio across the hall last winter and the light there is the only reason she stays. Observant, soft-spoken, sharper than she looks — counts threads in conversations the way she counts them in cloth.