To drift is to surrender to a movement whose direction cannot always be known. It suggests a state of suspension, of being carried by currents that may lead somewhere unexpected, or nowhere at all. Beneath the seemingly endless surface of the sea, invisible processes unfold: organisms flourish and disappear, sediments accumulate, and traces of human activity travel through water, often far beyond their point of origin. There is both beauty and unease in this constant movement, a sense of life un… more