A layered and tactile work, Borden Capalino's *Ancient Rome* brings together thermal transfer, lemons, pigmented resin, and Plasticine on canvas to create a richly textured surface that blurs the boundaries between painting and sculpture. The unconventional combination of organic and synthetic materials evokes a sense of archaeological excavation, as though remnants of a lost world have been unearthed and suspended in time. Capalino's process-driven approach transforms the canvas into a site of material tension, where history and the everyday collide in unexpected harmony.