This clean, simple layout works because the positive and negative space is balanced in an almost awkward manner. That aside, the repetition element of the layout reminds me of mirror images, as such alluding to the mirror therapy and visual illusions employed in the treatment of phantom limb pain which reveals to us the malleability of our sense of the body.
Workroom, 2010, Lebbeus Woods, graphic design, accessed 6 April 2011, <http://butdoesitfloat.com/1096209/You-can-t-bring-your-old-habits-here-If-you-want-to>.