The familiar and the otherworldly

From Simen Johan’s new gallery, published at The Morning News, "Until the Kingdom Comes." According to the artist:

Our thoughts can be terrifying, but the world is evidently a friendly one or else it wouldn’t cater so well to our survival. When working on an image, I strive to create tension and confuse the boundaries between opposing forces, such as beauty and brutality as you say, or the familiar and the otherworldly, the natural and the artificial, the amusing and the eerie. I often feel like I am attempting to reconcile the irreconcilable as I explore the paradoxical nature of existence, its simultaneous abundance of beauty and horror.

I rather like some of the images, but the explanation is all a little too much, don't you think?