there isn't much in common with my work and walid raad's, except for the sense of "cut-out" aesthetics, and maybe the militaristic themes in some of his work. but it's the cut-out, collage look that interests me.
i find the visual effect of it really interesting, when photographs are cut out of their rectangular frame and placed onto a white sheet, or when a whole chunk of a photograph is seemingly cut out to leave a white space in the center
the seemingly three-dimensional world illustrated in the photograph turns into this immense sense of flatness. like the white negates any sort of realism that existed in the photograph, and actually reinforces the acknowledgement that it is a flat, 2-d photograph and not some window into reality.
it's an interesting idea, and it got me looking into notions of the Superflat, and the works of japanese photographer takashi homma. this is a great article about him: http://www.japanexposures.com/2009/12/15/the-burned-field-takashi-homma-and-the-rise-of-superflat/
