Davide Balliano's untitled 2023 work utilizes plaster, gesso, and varnish on linen to explore the intersection of painting and sculptural form. The artist's research interrogates the tension between human labor as identity and technological efficacy, while contemplating time's perception and the sublime. Through materiality and formal experimentation, Balliano creates works that exist in the threshold between two and three dimensional space. The composition emerges from a carefully considered yet open-ended exploration of material possibilities and their philosophical implications.