Put Your Phone Down, Look with Both Eyes handwritten for Hockney’s 2026 exhibition at Serpentine explores the act of reminding people to be present throughout their day. 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.
Handmade by the artisans at Duchess China 1888.