Speyers Design

My polished stainless-steel sculpture Silent Wings is now on display at the Museu do Calçado in Portugal as part of Collecting Connecting, an exhibition celebrating more than 20 years of Liza Snook’s and her unique vision. Happy, honored, and grateful 🙏

Catch me if you can. Nature holding on.

Golden light on ‘Little Wing’ — touched by the sun in a hilltop garden in Kent, Great Britain

For my client, I created her first heels: a timeless cognac pump as an extension of her style. The process began with a sculpted wooden last, fully tailored to her fit. Using the same last, a second design was then created: a high-gloss black pump with a platform and high heel. Two completely different styles, built from one unique last.

The making of a pump; fine lining, cognac leather, sculpted heels (…and some patience & craftsmanship)

The yellow light of Morocco. Morning light filtering through thin curtains, the Sahara sunset and waiting for the sunrise over the mountain the next day. Yellow, but never the same.

The Moment. Neither artificial nor intelligent.
Art photography as an interplay of human, animal, planet, and technology. Early in the morning in the Sahara, on the back of a camel, I aimed my camera at the moon. Because it was dark, the lens remained open longer—long enough to capture the uneven movement of the camel. Like a graphic symbol. A mark in the dark.

What I photographed was not the moon, not the desert, not the animal, but an encounter. The moon moved as it always does. The camel walked as it walked only on that morning. And I have—apart from that one time—never been in the Sahara.

It is an interplay of rhythms that had never crossed before and will never do so again. The technology translated this into an image written with light. It is the unnoticed choreography of cosmos, movement, chance, and intention. We usually move through it as if it speaks for itself, while nothing ever repeats. Before it can be understood, we have already left the moment behind.

One last time to admire together in one place, the four shoe artworks Domenica, Riptide and Kill War part I and part II. Sunday, April 19 from 2pm at House of Dialogue in Bussum, in the ‘Stories to Tell’ exhibition featuring beautiful work by 18 artists.

Riptide boot, bold in appearance—precise detail.
Beneath the expressive surface lies a quiet precision— a carefully shaped, elegant line, from the cast platform to the finely cut pattern pieces.

‘Veronica’ by Elvis Costello is a tribute to his grandmother and to the young girl she once was — a song about gradual slipping into Alzheimer’s disease.

Neurons form networks of connections. In Alzheimer’s disease, these connections begin to disappear, and the network becomes fragmented. Memories seem “lost”, sometimes returning unexpectedly - until even the neuron itself disappears.

This art piece is about neurons. A single neuron is depicted on this golden pump. The shoe was designed and crafted for a distinguished British neuroscientist on the occasion of receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at the gala dinner of the UK BioIndustry Association.