This is meant to symbolize the first sunrise. Not exactly the first one that ever occurred, but the first one that would have mattered enough to ancient humans that they may have decided that the sun was reliable enough to base all forms of early time measurement off of. Even today we still utilize a good deal of solar based time. Go ahead and download this if you'd like to use it as a wallpaper, I've included the humongous version.
Tools of the trade Adobe Illustrator CS3 Adobe Photoshop CS3
Final Size 11 x 17
The Book This is a chapter - head from a book I am producing called Essays on Time. Look for other deviations with the EoT title to see different parts of the book.
Good stuff, love the planet texture and composition. The only thing that slightly disturbs me is the overly irregular and firely sun, almost reminds me more of an explosion... maybe more subtle sunbeams would do the trick. Anyway, great work!