Most of his work seems to be surreal simply for the sake of surrealism. Many pieces take classic impossible shapes and just show his own rendition of them, such as the "Penrose lego" and "Crossroads." These sorts of illusions have been done countless times, particularly by M.C. Escher, but also by many others. Other pieces take expected images and situations and make them somehow unreal, such as "Arms break, vases don't," which is just as the title says.
Some of his pieces deal with definite conflict between humans, nature, and cities or civilization. In "Strange forest," and "Big laundry day," for example, it seems to show that civilization has spread so far that it has become the norm, and basically replaced nature. In "Homo sapiens" and "Fishy island," he is showing a deeper connection between humans and nature. The messages are that humans come from the earth, and the earth on which we live is itself alive, in the two pieces respectively. In "Zip city," it shows a conflict between cities and nature, but also between cities and people, as the tractors (and presumably their riders) are positioned to be retreating from the incoming city as it zips up. So in all, there doesn't seem to be a cohesive message except that perhaps people, nature, and civilization all interact with each other, and no one thing is dominant in every place.
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