In the conception of Panmela Castro's Affective Drift, the fortuity is the subject of a search for belonging. Life is guided by meetings by chance, in a process of feeling liberated to float. Moments of encountering that are aleatory and others that were already written. In this series, the artist surrenders to this movement in territories where she is led by the network of affection she develops by letting herself go.

During some weeks of the year 2024, the artist set up a studio on a small balcony in Lisbon, adorned with plants and Portuguese tiles where she received friends, newly acquainted people, and strangers to be portrayed in her drift process.

Dona Deolinda, from Cape Verde, came to Portugal in search of better living conditions. Here she met her husband, a fellow countryman from her hometown, with whom she had her daughter Anastácia. In Panmela's painting, mother and daughter are seen hugging. Anastácia, who had already posed for the artist, brought her mother so that their love could be registered and eternalized.