Daydreams and Wooden Shutters

Cover art for Reckoning X by Mónica Robles Corzo, featuring a fish, a human, a snake, some mushrooms, and the tail of a fox in a semicircle surrounded by curlicues representing communication, with a big black X in the middle, against a white background.Reckoning X

Daydreams and Wooden Shutters. Photography. 2025. “Daydreams and Wooden Shutters” reflects survival not through struggle, but quiet endurance. The girl, with a bowl in hand and a distant gaze, embodies the balance between physical need and inner life. In her stillness, survival is not just about food—but about holding onto hope, reflection, and the will to imagine beyond scarcity.

A photo of Mike Wheeler, a Black man with close-cut hair and beard in a white shirt.

Author: Mike Wheeler

Michael Temi-tope Adebiyi (Mike Wheeler) is a fine-art photographer from Ilorin, Nigeria, whose expressionist, surrealist work explores identity and human experience. His photography has been featured in Lolwe, Blue Marble Review, Josephine Quarterly, Chestnut Review, Spellbinder, and Ake Review, with exhibitions in New York (Canvas Gallery), Bali (Superlative Gallery), Nairobi (ETH Safari), and Lisbon (NFC Summit).

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