So...
I'm a huge Star Wars fan, and there's nothing in Star Wars that I'm a bigger fan of then the clones. Maybe its because I'm so into military sociology and military science fiction. Long story short, the clones represent a lot of things to me and trying to see the saga from their perspective really changed a lot for me. More info upon request.
On the surface, its simply a symbol of my perception of the clones. But there's more to it.
In my general artwork, I do a lot of work with the military, masculinity, and humanity. I like to look at physical alterations of men in order to create a reductionist caricature of their human self, making themselves superhuman in the process. Technology is a good pathway to take for this. So is armor. I also focus a lot on violence, an essential product of militarism and masculinity. All three are in clones.
In my art, I often don't show naked men. I find much more symbolism in the musculature of individuals and I don't really feel that the penis is the most outright expression of masculinity. Half-naked would be the proper term, though you can't see he's wearing a codpiece 13.
Clones are treated as sub-human in Star Wars. What I've done it taken a dehumanized head and placed on a ripped body. This is really an iconic statement. If you saw 300 and the headless body, you get my drift. Its not really human, in many ways its less as It shows no emotion, no facial features, but at the same time it can definitely beat your ass into the ground.
Its an ideal type, a depiction of something that we want, at least partially, to be as men, and something that we fear as a society. Its the feeling we get we we look at defiled Classical statues like the Venus di Milo, or the Egyptian gods with the animal heads and the body of men. Its a synthesis of our humanity and our inhumanity. Our superficial desire for peace being trampled by our need for violence.
Other interpretations? Here's two more analysis.
1: I often depict minorities, of which the clones are one. One of my friends, coincidentally a minority, thinks that my art is often about how minorities struggle between their cultures and the white built culture of the Western World. He feels that I show that minorities actually dehumanize themselves (for example, the stoic face of WHITE armor) in order to attempt to approve their status in society.
2: Another friend, thinks that my art shows a conflict between heterosexuality and homosexuality. He claims that masculinity is essentially homosexual in nature. Thus my depictions of men are trying to compensate and hide the innately homosexual aspects (not necessarily their sexuality) of themselves.
This is not to say that this is the only messages in my artwork, but you can call it my main thesis.