I think it's pretty successful.
As noted, the eyes go front to back, into the out of focus area. The stuff in the foreground isn't very eye catching, but has some great supporting textures and lines. It's a little incongruous to have the "visual center" or whatever be in the out of focus area, but I am darned if I can see what's wrong with that. The focus isn't about drawing attention here, but about revealing texture where it matters. The stuff in the background is smoother shapes, so we don't need the focus there like we do with the rasp(?).
It's a little hard to look at, simply because we're used to looking in the in-focus material for the "thing we're supposed to look at", but that's not the picture's fault.