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.

Xando, a music producer who calls himself a "blasian", swimming in urban influences from Luanda, São Paulo, and Lisbon. He was recommended to Panmela by a friend of a friend who knew him from the streets, and thought of him as the perfect character for one of Panmela Castro's paintings. In turn, Xando told the artist that he still lacked the experience of being portrayed in a classic oil on canvas painting, and therefore came to meet her at the studio in Lisbon.