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.

Juca is a very high-spirited Brazilian who for some time has owned a salon where he works as a hairdresser in Lisbon. A friend of a friend of a friend of Panmela's, he was contacted with the idea of being the perfect model for her series on Portugal. He arrived at the studio dressed in a blue gown, similar to Yemanjá, and laid down on the studio's recliner, like a goddess of the waters, where he was portrayed as one of the artist's muses.