Dear Nostalgia

Dear Nostalgia draws from the vivid colours of childhood. Those lush, green days of innocence and wonder. It is a meditation on memory, where moments once ordinary now glow with extraordinary clarity. The work is a bittersweet yearning for a time when life felt untainted, intimate, and endlessly vibrant, when curiosity was boundless and joy was unselfconscious. Yet, within this warmth lies the quiet ache of distance, the realization that such purity exists now only in fragments of recollection. In blending tenderness with longing, the piece becomes both a love letter to the past and a reminder of how memory shapes our present selves, colouring the way we see, feel, and hope.

Turning Tides

Turned Tides is about the essence of transformation and liberation, suspending a fleeting moment where gravity itself seems uncertain. The inverted world mirrors the inner turbulence that often precedes change. Like the ebb and flow of tides, the work reflects how life’s pivotal transitions carry us beyond familiar boundaries, urging us to surrender control and embrace the unknown. It is in this surrender that freedom emerges, where constraint dissolves into possibility, and where self-discovery finds its true horizon.

Mirrored Realities

Mirrored Realities is about the fluid boundary between existence and illusion, motion and stillness. Through overlapping figures suspended in midair, the work captures the tension between freedom and entrapment, progress and repetition. It asks: are we truly moving forward, or are we caught in the reflection of our own gestures, endlessly replayed? The fragmented silhouettes suggest that identity itself is not singular but layered, refracted through memory, perception, and time. In this ambiguity, the photograph becomes a meditation on presence, on what is real, what is imagined, and what exists only as an echo within the self.

Michael Temitope Adebiyi

Michael Temi-tope Adebiyi (known professionally as Mike Wheeler) is an award-winning fine-art photographer from Ilorin, Nigeria, whose work explores identity and human experience. His photography is characterized by expressionist, surrealist, and minimalist aesthetics, His work has garnered international attention, with features in festivals, journals, and galleries such as Chestnut Review, Reckoning, Lolwe, The Adroit Journal, Blue Marble Review, Spellbinder, Snoozine, Ake Review, Canvas Gallery (New York), Superlative Gallery (Bali), ETH Safari (Nairobi), and NFC Summit (Lisbon). He tweets as Myke_Wheeler.