In To Where the Water Reflects the Sun, Tais Rose Wae traces the meeting point of light and water as a place of reflection, memory, and inheritance. The work gestures towards the way stories are carried by the natural world—how water mirrors the sky, and how lineage is mirrored across generations.

Through cotton, raffia, pearls, and paint, Wae layers material gestures that echo both fragility and resilience. Each element holds symbolic weight: raffia as fibre tied to land, pearls as offerings from the sea, cotton as grounding, and paint as mark and presence. Together, they form a surface where personal memory and ancestral story move fluidly, much like sunlight shifting across water.

The work stands as both a reflection and a passage—an invitation to pause in the shimmering space between what is seen and what is carried within.