Reality and fantasy often blur in Simen Johan’s art: Using both traditional photographic techniques and digital methods, he merges images of animals—taken in zoos, farms, nature preserves, museum dioramas, even from roadkill—with other visual elements to create one seamless, albeit disorienting, composition. “I strive to create tension and confuse the boundaries between opposing forces, such as the familiar and the otherworldly,” he wrote in an email.