Patrick Carroll • Opening

Patrick Carroll 
Opening, 2025 
Merino wool blend sweater with cotton text
Approximately Small / Medium
24 x 21 inches lying flat 

Opening should be hand-washed in cool water with a bit of detergent or dish soap, reshaped and laid flat to dry. Opening is a bit fragile at the neckline–some care should be taken when putting on and taking off.

Patrick Carroll is an artist, writer, and clothes-maker. Working with a kind of radical softness, Carroll uses fabric and thread to slow language down until it becomes something tactile, vulnerable, and almost bodily. His stitched texts—deliberate, hand-sewn, and patient—strip words of their easy circulation and insist on their weight, their fragility, and their capacity to wound or soothe. What emerges is a practice that feels both austere and deeply intimate: minimal in surface, but saturated with care, repetition, and the politics of making by hand. In Carroll’s work, text ceases to be transparent and instead becomes an object of attention, charged with quiet defiance and the resonance of lived experience.