This body of work — The Waves — borrows its title and conceptual approach from Virginia Woolf ’s lyrical novel, which envisions the self, consciousness and time as continually made and remade through metaphors of water and light. Woolf’s words are excerpted in the title of each work. In these paintings, Drummond explores the transformation of becoming a parent through the fluid and liminal space of the domestic bath. Maternal metamorphosis unfolds as a chromatic event, carrying the viewer through cycles of the fragmentation and reassembly of the self wrought by caring for another