Interpretation

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In the work, clocks appears to melt over branches and rigid surfaces, and ants devour a pocket watch while a vague face hovers in the background. The background itself show the rocky landscape of Port Lligat in Dali's native Catalonia, Spain.

... The face beyond if said to be Dali himself, the ants may represent destruction or decay, the rocks can be veiwed as eternity or reality, and the melting clocks perhaps show that regimented time is an artificial concept that cannot withstand the true power of the universe beyond.