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.

Kemberling Martinez, a Venezuelan therapist specializing in emotional management and body awareness, shares with Panmela Castro an interest in the use of the arts for curative processes. Following Panmela's work, she found out that the artist was in Lisbon looking for people to be portrayed in her garden-studio in the Lapa neighborhood and volunteered.