Curator, Anne Umland: If I stepped into a landscape like this, my first thought would be, how do I get out of it? Because it's really creepy.
Dalí was an artist from Spain. He liked to make pictures that were unsettling, that were dreamlike.
All the rules are off the table. Watches can be as big as trees. You never would see a watch sag or melt or maybe be smelly enough that a fly wants to crawl around on its surface.
And then the pinky, soft, squishy shape at the center It's almost like Silly Putty? It has those incredibly unnaturally long eyelashes, and it's a little difficult to decipher what's happening under the nostril. Is it a rock? Is it the end of a snail? Is it a big booger?
I find the lighting to be one of the most eerie aspects. The cliffs are brightly lit, but the foreground is all cast in shadow.
What would it feel like to walk around in this space? I think I would leave the melting watches and the oozy slug thing behind, and I would go to the beach.