Helen Duco was born and raise in Texas. She graduated from Rice University in 2018 with majors in Studio Art and Art History. Studio Duco was born out of necessity from a tendency to hoard found textiles. It examines the thin line between the creation of functional, familiar household items and the useless doppelgangers presented here.

My first creative memory takes place under my parents' dining room table in my childhood home. I am crouched collecting scraps of fabric from between my mother's feet as she sits painstakingly sewing a quilt. These scraps became small quilts of my own for fairies. learning to sew led me to knitting, them to embroidery, and since then to any number of techniques involving joined fibers.

A frenetic motivation to create drives my obsession with textiles. In constantly binding materials together, I've found that, beyond pattern or texture or form, the most important part of my work is the thread. It feeds the ever-hungry hum of the sewing machine, which in turn drowns out any internal monologue. It is a shared language that links pieces and patterns, that allows for a structural integrity. It creates a tethered whole of transient, disposable scraps.

The pieces present in this show are an examination of the silences of the inter life that remain when the sewing machine stopes and a tangible object is born.