Look With Both Eyes "Trinket" Tray

Put Your Phone Down, Look with Both Eyes is a handwritten phrase by David Hockney, created for his 2026 solo exhibition at Serpentine. The work reflects Hockney's sustained belief that deep, attentive looking — with both eyes — produces depth, movement, and spatial awareness, and remains a form of agency in itself. The phrase also connects to his longstanding use of mirrors throughout his practice, which resist fixed perspective and place the viewer within the scene.

This trinket tray is handcrafted by Duchess China 1888 in fine bone china, printed with Hockney's handwritten text. Dimensions: 19.5 x 15 x 3 cm.

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.