Riptide

Wout Speyers

Platform boot made from a rug from the ‘Dutch Horizons’ series, a project by Bert and Roosmarie Voss. Photography and design come together in a collection of rugs inspired by the North Sea, 2026.

A boot inspired by sea and sand.
Without a heel, yet elevated by a high platform.

Steady as a breaker among the waves.

The upholstered covering breathes the windy coast.

If I could change the world
make it beautiful
like the waves of the ocean
as the tide rolls out
on ancient history
as the wind is shaping
the sand dunes
a painter a stroke
of coloured feeling
is sketchin’ the coastline
in a constant stream

Jehro, 2015.

© Wout Speyers.


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