One Second Before I Wake unfolds at the edge of a dream — in the fragile interval where consciousness is about to return, yet everything remains disordered, seductive, and quietly unsettling. The work constructs a psychological space through highly saturated colour: red pulses like an amplified heartbeat, while blue and green introduce a calm that feels distant and detached. The figure is surrounded by lampshades, gloves, frames, and sticky notes; the eyes are covered, the body is guided into strange postures, as if trying to recall the mysterious person who appeared last night — never certain whether they were real or imagined. Here, the sense of absurdity is not a visual trick, but a translation of the subconscious: unspoken anxieties, desires, expectations and hesitation are folded into colour, garment structure, and gesture. The project oscillates between fashion and narrative, inviting attraction and slight discomfort at the same time. Rather than offering answers, it suspends the viewer in a moment of pause — the final instant before waking, when we confront the dream we would rather not admit was ours.