The word “drift” in English comports a sense of derivation but also means “anger”, “eagerness” or “impulse” in Dutch. In French, it is also a geology term that denominates the materials transported by the glaciers. All those words evolve from the same Indo-Eu­ropean root : the “drift” is what pushes, induces and drives the action, but it will become, through mysteries of linguistic evolution, what is subjected to it. One of the latest fashionable motor sport translates the word “drift” by “controlled skid” : sliding with control, drifting without losing ground.

The concept starts with the same idea: the “drift”  is an inner strength, a conductor, what is slowly imposing, what carries and is carried away, until the drift. But the drifting also contains the pleasure of wandering and non-sense. It then matters to let oneself be guided rather than to drive, to float on the surface of those rivers carrying mate­rial pieces from a distant past, to wander and wonder, taken by the continental drift - the movement of continents.
— AS