Large masses in the solar system, i.e. stars or galaxies, distort both time and space; they make light waves bend. This painting is illustrating that phenomenon by looking out over a landscape and up to a bending and distorted sky. The concept of spacetime considers space in a fourth dimension in this way. A painting only has two dimensions and if it is representational art, represents a three dimensional world in those two dimensions.
Time being warped has been symbolized here in the images of the large, distorted hourglass, and the hanging gold pocket watch. The sky is full of spheres, with three moons, IO and Europa from Jupiter and Titan from Saturn, plus a number six pool ball. A nuclear atom also occupies the sun's place in the sky, with electrons as light blue spheres orbiting its nucleus.
The sky is being ripped away, leaving a white vacuum on the right background. Along with a large semi-transparent statue of a female torso, the Seattle Space Needle and the Christ the Redeemer statue from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is found in two places, up on the hilltop and as a figurine on the chessboard.
Three buildings from center city Philadelphia are also displayed; two of them - the Liberty One building and city hall with the William Penn statue atop the tower are on the chessboard, the Comcast building is found on the far left horizon and the Heydar Ailyev Center from Azerbajan is that warped building just under the Space Needle.
A fairly famous singer from the 90's is the woman's face on the chessboard.