The mountains are rooted in the ground as they are in the painter’s memory.It contrasts with the dark foreground which is reminiscent of an imaginary and overwhelming world. The bright sea symbolizes memory and reality.Dali symbolises his emotional emptiness by the empty shoreline.The olive tree, symbol of wisdom, is dry, dead.The mirror embodies inconstancy as it reflects reality as well as the imaginary.A strange object -or, rather, character- is lying on the ground and could represent the painter or the inner world and its dreamlike nature.Time flies and passes… It is represented by this insect.The painter made this link as a child when he observed ants swarming over the remains of a bat.
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