Look With Both Eyes Mug

Put Your Phone Down, Look with Both Eyes handwritten for Hockney’s 2026 exhibition at Serpentine reminds his audience to be present. Looking with both eyes produces depth, movement, and spatial awareness. It also connects to Hockney’s sustained use of mirrors throughout his practice. They resist fixed perspective and place the viewer within the scene rather than outside it. The work sits within Hockney’s wider belief that how we look shapes how we understand the world, and that deep looking remains a form of agency.

David Hockney

David Hockney (b. 1937 in Bradford, Yorkshire, UK) is one of the most influential artists of our time. Throughout his seven-decade spanning career, the British artist remains endlessly inventive and committed to celebrating the world around him, epitomised by his signature phrase, “Love Life.” A deep fascination with perspective and a desire to investigate how we see and represent the world led him to explore a range of artistic mediums from painting to photographic collages, set design, drawing and printmaking. Hockney’s use of new technology is an extension of his interest in different modes of capturing reality. From his Polaroid composites to fax machine drawings and, in recent years, his iPad paintings, he seeks to unlock the potential of each technology for the creation of art.

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