"Everyone in Rome remembered the day the sundial arrived in town. Pointing to a spot near the platform on which he stood, Valerius (263 BC) unveiled the sundial he had brought back from Sicily and mounted on a column bearing his name. […] The sundial from Catania was joined by dozens of others across Rome, each designed to regulate and control the myriad daily activities of Roman citizens—who were quickly troubled by the intrusion of this new timekeeping technology. The situation deteriorated to the point where sundials became the target of the city’s playwrights and critics. […] We should consider the sundial in the Roman Forum as the city's first clock tower. Installed high up, overlooking the people, and representing the ruling classes of Rome themselves, it changed everything. From the moment Valerius unveiled his sundial in the Forum, Romans were forced to set their lives to the clock. And this new temporal order was sweeping through civilizations across the world."

— David Rooney, About Time

Set-Rise-Sun is a mixed-media installation exploring the interaction between technology, time, and the environment. The artwork consists of a modified LCD screen positioned perpendicularly to the surface of the water in a natural setting. Through this setup, viewers can observe an evolving virtual Sun moving from top to bottom across the screen.

To the naked eye, the screen emits nothing but white light. Having had its polarizing film removed, the LCD screen's content is only visible through its reflection on the water, which acts as a natural polarizing filter through the phenomenon of Brewster's angle.