My Interpretation of an Art Piece

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^That is my amazingly long ling to Salvador Dali's painting, "The persistence of memory."

Observations:
I notice that not only is the land and everything dull and flat in this painting, the clocks are flat too.
The clocks have the look of a balloon without air.
The clocks look wilted.
There's a large gray thing on the floor, which i first thought was a walrus or dolphin or something? Now, I'm pretty positive it's a surreal drawing of a sad, gray face. With a very large nose.
The colors are very bold and the way the image was painted doesn't match the surrealist art period it belongs to, or the surrealist painter. (Otherwise, this painting is pretty surrealist.)

Inferences/Interpretations:
I inferred that the wilting, disturbing clocks have a deeper meaning. It could do with memory, as the poem is titled "The persistence of memory."  I'm guessing that the painter is showing something about how time has wilted since some big event happened, by showing clocks that are...deflated, for lack of a better term.
The clocks can also have kind of a "time stands still" meaning, where he depicts the clocks not working to show how time has paused.
  A third idea is that he has a very pessimistic, neurotic view on the world. He shows this with having the land be flat and barren, brown and gloomy. < I'm guessing this means that he feels his life is dull and he isn't satisfied with it.  As for the big, gray face lying on the ground in the painting, I still can't really infer what that means.   The eye is closed with the eyelashes hanging over the bottom part, which could show that this weird, gray thing is either tired or sad.  I'mma guess sad.
The one thing that gets me confused about this painting is the background.  Whereas the foreground looks barren and sad, the mountains contrast this, and so do the jolly colors of the sea.
I feel that the artist is using the background to represent happiness, as if happiness was far away, long gone in the past or the future. (THE CLOCKS.) Or, that happiness was just not with him.
Either way, I see the artist making himself the gray person and living a sad, flat life. I think he saw his world as very depressed, and that time made him depressed, or the way that time functioned.