Looking at the Flowers (Framed) (2022)

I have come across paintings in paintings before. I have not, though, come across a picture of the artist and his double admiring their own pictures. Looking at the Flowers (Framed) is part of an exhibition called 20 Flowers For 2025 And Some Bigger Pictures and it is the first time that David Hockney's series of 20 iPad flower paintings are found together at Salt’s Mill at Saltaire, a location with which Hockney has been long familiar. About Looking at the Flowers (Framed) the artist stated:

"This is photographic but is in no way an ordinary photograph. I had been doing what I called photographic drawings giving a much more 3D effect. Ironically the only things not photographed in this picture are the flowers themselves. The objects on the floor are all photographed in 3D, one walks round the object and then the computer makes an image that can be turned any way you want, this is why I called them photographic drawings. You can place them anywhere in the picture, so I think it's a new kind of photography that avoids perspective. I am continuing with this research."

So we have here an innovative artistic medium in which the artist has become the art.

I like to read Church History, not just because it is interesting and instructive, but because each Christian is still helping to make it. We are featuring in what future Christians will read about and study. If I knew I was going to be a part of a large art installation, I would dress up. If I knew I was going to play a part in the history of the Christian Church, I would convey myself with boldness, truth and fortitude.  

You are part of the picture, the story, the victory:

Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4:17