{"product_id":"go-with-the-flood-marius-ritiu","title":"Go With the Flood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGo With the Flood\u003c\/i\u003e transforms the surfboard — an object associated with balance, movement, and leisure — into something uncanny and extraterrestrial. Hand hammered in copper and suspended like a specimen or celestial remnant, the sculpture appears less shaped by waves than by collision, heat, and atmospheric descent. It carries the presence of a meteorite fallen from space: scarred, oxidized, and mysteriously intact after an impossible voyage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work embraces absurdity through displacement. A surfboard without water, a vehicle without direction, an artifact seemingly detached from any coherent function or narrative. Its rough blue-black patina evokes cosmic debris or the burned surface of an object drifting through unknown dimensions before arriving abruptly within the white neutrality of the gallery space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHovering between relic and spacecraft fragment, Go With the Flood suggests a form of existential navigation — surrendering not to the ocean, but to forces far larger and less comprehensible. The title itself becomes paradoxical: the “flood” may no longer be terrestrial, but cosmic — a tide of matter, time, and uncertainty through which the sculpture continues its silent drift.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Studio Marius Ritiu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59587372679502,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/6928\/9981\/files\/M9A6376.jpg?v=1778696048","url":"https:\/\/objectswithnarratives.com\/products\/go-with-the-flood-marius-ritiu","provider":"Objects With Narratives","version":"1.0","type":"link"}