 He points upward directing the viewer's attention to a dominating transparent torso with arms stretched outward spanning the width of the picture plane.The scene's setting is within a transparent dodecahedron or twelve-sided space as perceived in the pentagon-shaped windowpanes behind the table.In the background is a familiar landscape of Catalonia, which Dalí has included in his paintings numerous times, one example being his famous painting "The Persistence of Memory".