To dream is to hover between presence and absence, to drift into the liminal space where the body is neither fully there nor fully gone. The Dreamer is Still Asleep lingers in that tension: an aesthetic fever dream where vision multiplies, reflections fold back into themselves, and the subject wavers like an apparition caught between waking and sleep. The eyes flicker but do not quite meet yours. The body gestures but remains spectral, as if its weight has dissolved into the architecture of the dream itself. The dream, after all, has no allegiance to reality. It allows you to be one thing and its opposite at once: the figure in motion, the apparition dissolving.








Team Credits
Photographer: @dnaeis
Model: @_sheenaong at @niwamodels
Makeup: @robertweirbeauty
Hair: @erikafunghair
Stylist: @evanphelanstylist
Styling Assistant: @chhataguptaa
Hair Assistant: @honokawamichi
Wardrobe:
Look 01 — OFFTN STUDIOS, Manolo Blahnik
Look 02 — OFFTN STUDIOS, Evan Phelan
Look 03 — Zoe Stone, Manolo Blahnik

Cody Rooney is the Editor in Chief and senior contributor at liminul.
He is a PhD candidate, digital content specialist, writer, editor, multi-media artist, and photographer.
