Im glad YOUve fOUnd sOmeOne whO lOves YOU BUt sad tO saY that sOmeOne Is YOU.

and nOw perhaps YOUll BOth Be happY, gUess that makes twO: jUst YOU &YOU. sOmeOne whO cares sO mUch aBOUt YOU, BUt dOes that sOmeOne have tO Be YOU?
Vanity kills (Fry/white)

peter berlin self portrait

a BPX art Portfolio

Clones. Our xeroxed selves, brand new but familiar (the same old, in fact.)

The pursuit of sameness is a recurring theme of gay culture. Narcissus had a reflection in a pond, but the mirror has evolved and become more complex to include technology that indulges self-love in ways once only imagined. Reflections are always distorted in the minds eye, but now the ability to manipulate the image and representation of self digitally creates new forms of narcissistic pleasure and, though the day of easy cloning is still way off, doing so digitally is more than accessible. We create thin digital avatars of ourselves and cast them into the house-of-mirrors that is the internet to interact with friends, find sex or just fulfill the desire for attention. Sometimes these avatars are perfect 2D representations of the person behind the keyboard, but often they are chimeras cobbled from fashion magazines, swiped images and porn. So, considering the thin layer that exists between the self and the other in gay desire, whats gonna happen if and when the option of cloning ourselves becomes available?

We wanted to explore the many facets of a fascinating topic and invited eleven New York artists to participate in this virtual conversation. It was also necessary to pay tribute to the original clones, the urban gay men of the 70s who defined a template of desirability thats still current several decades later.

You can see the multiple red threads in the following pages.

on r lati irro opu m o p t the e hom bu onc he ond ys te of t a p wa ula nts in e in nip gh me ion lov ma ou seg flect self- y to d th in ain re es ilit . an th ert d a ulg e ab ure eate act ee c ha ind th eas cr ter u s ssus hat ow c pl . we o in . yo arci gy t ut n sisti ible t t t 2D and e. n olo e, b rcis cess rne rfec sh n-h lon hn s ey na ac nte pe fa d-i ot a e tec ind s of han he i s are rom han n ud m rm e t is t tar d f go hen incl the w fo mor hat ava bble ism en w x to d in ne y is rs t ese s co ciss s ev ple rte ates itall irro s th era era nar elve com disto re ig m e im am ly c d of- etim ch and s em ore ays ital g so use- om are or c ne tion g th e m alw dig oin ho n. s hey rba kin om are elf d the tio n t pho stu fuc bec ns of s off to tten fte our ma or nd ctio ion ays in r a ut o ey ing d a efle tat a w hem e fo d, b . us dat lve . r en ill st t sir ar sm evo ined pres is st a e o uri d c e d yb has imag nd re ning es an lfill th the ke oye ly e a clo lv u d th v

lo co Vet to da t ev bre gn en at o th he ne ou in gh alw it k ay ills s

jordan eagles blooDy scotty anD nick hiroki otsuka ankoku no utage zachari logan Duality 1 - abraham & isaac matthew waldman kaleiDoscock scooter laforge Docking you clone culture

loVett/codagnone to breathe in always even though it kills

chip wass senD in the clones

you

michael magnan untitleD troy dunham Detroit arthur rodrigues porn/stars karl giant D.o on D.o

pIpe dr ea m
an er ot ic ta le by da n

se xt on

I normally wouldnt say yes to a job in the clone quadrant something about those guys (even half a century after theyd been proven stable) and the men who commission carbon copies of themselves still kind of freaks me out. But when I got the call on my plasma phone and I saw the two of them standing there soaked, shirtless, their torsos glistening, their four hard nipples blazing like tiny camp fires set defiantly in two dark identical forests of chest hair, my mouth wouldnt let me say no. I grabbed my tool box full of wrenches and pipe extractors and tubing benders, threw it in the back of my van, and made it to their home in under eight minutes. They were waiting in the doorway of their antechamber, expectantly, but with no hint of the sour mood youd normally expect to accompany a flooded basement. One of them I couldnt tell who was the original and who was the clone (I guess thats the point of cloning) placed his hand on the small of my back as they led me to the burst pipe and I instantly felt my cock beginning to stiffen inside of my silicone nanofiber coveralls. Sex on the job was something Id often daydreamed about perhaps some kind of reverse working class fantasy still lingering in my DNA from the late 20th century but it rarely happened. Still, I was hoping this job might turn out to be an exception to the ho hum assignments I usually encountered. From the looks of them early 30s, dark mops of hair hanging in their eyes, scruffy handsome faces, muscles on top of muscles I was surprised they needed a plumber at all, not to mention the fact that most clones were created to help with exactly this kind of routine task. Their depen-

dence on my trade on me the way they stood back in a quiet kind of awe as I did my work, got me even hotter. They just sat there on a couple of empty crates watching me, still shirtless, asking innocent questions, their eyes burning into my wet skin as the church bells from Blondies Rapture pealed in some distant room above us. My dick refused to soften and I was careful to position myself so that my hard on wasnt too obvious, but as a small wet spot of pre-cum soon began to spread across the crotch of

one of them or maybe it was me? gasp. The one on the left pulled me to my feet as the other one began to unzip my coveralls, which fell into a pile around my ankles, the tip of my dick already slick and bobbing in the cool air of the basement. Before I knew it their jeans were off and I could see the heads of their massive dicks outlined in the damp material of their briefs. A wave of desire washed over me so thick that I thought I might be sick. They simultaneously freed themselves from their underwear and

my uniform, I knew it was now or never. Could you guys give me a hand? I asked motioning for them to join me. As I was on my knees, they towered above me, one on each side of me, and as the three of us struggled to fit the new pipe into place, I couldnt keep my eyes off of the dense trails of fur that meandered down their chests and disappeared into the tops of their waterlogged jeans. When the one on my left for the life of me I couldnt remember if they had ever told me their names caught me starring and gave me an amused smirk, I knew it was on. I reached up and ran my fingers across both of their tight furry stomachs and heard

I was suddenly kneeling before two of the most perfect cocks I had ever seen fat, uncut, just shy of eight inches, a midnight blue vein running down the center of each of their shafts and two identical teardrops of pre-cum anointing each of their piss slits. I grabbed their cocks and bent towards them, greedily trying to fit them both in my mouth but it was too much for me. They laughed at my hunger and pushed me toward the floor until I was on all fours and one began to bite at my neck while the other maneuvered behind me, spread my legs apart and then licked and kissed his way down my back until his tongue reached my asshole and jammed inside of me. I pawed

at them wildly as they worked me over, fingers squeezing and flicking my nipples, teeth grazing my skin here and there. Suddenly the tongue in my hole was replaced by a finger and then two and I moaned as I pushed back against them. The one in front of me kissed me hard before crouching and pushing his cock against my lips. Just as he thrust into my mouth I felt the head of the other ones cock against my ass and I took a deep breath as I drew both men into me. As they fucked me from both ends I imagined I was happily drowning in a channel stretched between two identical countries. It was like being trapped between two mirror images, or maybe I was the mirror? They grunted and swore as they pounded me and I gulped and panted, wanting to be completely split open, willing these manmade twins to explode inside of me. The one behind me began to speed up and his breathing became deeper, quicker, and I knew he was close. Careful not to let the other ones cock fall out of my mouth, I began to jerk myself off and the one fucking me began to moan Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck, while pumping me faster and harder. Just when I thought I was going to pass out, he cried Im going to cum! Im going to cum! and the other responded Me too! Fuuuuck! and our bodies shock as they both filled me with their giant matching loads. With both cocks still quivering inside of me, I jerked my own dick three or four times and launched six or seven huge, ropey shots of cum across the basement floor. After they both gently pulled out of me, all three of us fell into an exhausted pile. It was my first fuck in the clone quadrant, but I had a feeling it wouldnt be my last.

spOnsOrs eXhIBItOrs
n di g,
e nc f s|

CS MI CO CE ES . RO CO PLA E ON TI-HING N D R DIX GE A N AT E TE BO BUT HAM COLL Y BO NED NTER DIA N E CA ST HUEY M LL MA HE ALL D C K D STU AR WAD TS D K C SEN IC E NY E PRE D L G EM EA OCR S R R EU INGE EAR L G D FFS Z IN NITE E Y U T GU LEM LEGA R HA E APPEAR L KY AL W KS DON R H LET NWO BRAN L RS MA HAE THE DV8 IC X M JO P LEA / N NY RAM SSIO UDIO T F A OF PLE P SH S R ZA PU ERT THER RGE B A RO IO LE AT LA T E B RU SAIN T ZIN R THENK A S U SPARTAC THER D N SPA E LEA ISLA V E STE SUR N A E TRE AL SOOIC V B TRI AGE L VIL

bl

ck
th

k a ar t b a z m
i ex es ri ng

op r n s sh | p o et a r

an r m a br e r f o re l p cousica d ar | m __ t , h | djs __ ree_ _ ng s __ d st__ pi tar _

es

tu ea

_ 239_ _ __ __ ro_m __ _ ll _ o _ __ ba __ and___ _ el__ os r___

y db ste __ 52n _ ho____ w__t___ es

be

f ne

itt

in

tic

n rli 29__ e _ s f_b___9 w__t__ _ 0 _e o_ 6 r15 __ia n_____ yc | _ 8o __mn_s__ e a

__
pr

a ith w ka n w n o re ati ns ar ci tio t d sso uc s b a od ht in r ig ced it p l ex u od no

sun 20

_ o_ _ lin a n g e ____bal_r_o_m _ l d ber s t r ___ elan___ os of r____ 5 1 or 8

ke ts d an in fo rm

n |aV y. 2 ic us mas h e ____et m eh s _ tr y l s . d r e_____2nd_s__e__ n s ane a c t_____9 w__t_5__ m l i V __ | 23__ e |

by
io at n

ia gl a ten y nn da 1+
om

bl

ac

t ar kp

y.c

m 2a to by _ m c __ 7p usi __ re_t _ t e_ m __ th s__ _

lo au |p

sat 19

sat 19

n da r jo slie le _

fu fas ist e t i s h f

n fu of o n ls h i

fri 18

sp ec ia l

n ia ist hr c

fea tUr ed
h at he an rd jo

gu es th os t

o tin an al lV gy an

per fO rm ers

an rd jo lie les d ee rr ce en sp e ru la hi ic ch

dj

ay sh

x tto ma s gu ro me ro r be ar sp dj os ikl dm pa ar b

sio es al ey gr

en yd ja

e ikl w ill w

dj r ca en al el fa ra

k n an ea spl & s l i w

ng lo tt e rr ba tty be cid a

dj

an em ol lc bil k w ha

s ur sp sy i da

en ow n me

ick er aV em th

am ad

n lia kil

the rites stuff

aB la ph Ot lO ck pa Og Ok rt JA SO rap BOO Y N R he k OD d B GE Y RS

the B prO lac AD dUc k par A ph M K tIOn tY Ot O d VIC Og CH esIg TO ra ne R J phe r EFF d RE BY YS II

loVett codagnone to breathe in always even though it kills 2006

the human f a c t o r y.

pre sen ted BY THE BLA PR SA OD CR CK INT E C PA AT DIR ATIV O-P UCER RTY LA EC E D RO st pa RG FAS e T IR D g E HIO SECOR/S ECT UCE phen cl e 3O OR R m p ea -31 PR ON CE N: ev OD D NA la Ike Bla r pr UC ST RIS pO pe ner c In hO k w ted LIG TIO AGE T me Belm YtO OO ja n O CO HT N D DIR la str ded l tr cke ES EC nIe estIe ST IN AM Ipe sw en t HO PR UME G DE IGN TOR arm rI BIE Bla d pa ea ch OD D SIG ER m e NT c c OD n t LIG LIG UCT ESIG N jOada r. pa r lea k pa ts v er BE Oat BY A m m HTI HTIN ION N B the nts Inta RN DIO IR ra sh B kO NG G hO wO r h RI g HA /V OP MAN ndO OB r ch ar CK e C RD WR HO Od CA ID Bla Ol c ne OW OM IL M BY STI EO ERAT AGE n g Ose ck ape ss Z EN M LHE ME aIr. NG rO OR R g rIm E D LM cO Bla sw vIn AN S AS Be da UY m ES A c I m PU SO rt rr sm GA all k rU m trU tage BAY BLI R C R PR CIAT mOn en k Ith frO BBe nk YVE NE z ON OP E d te aw r s s, B S S an E m S BP LATIO S je an neg a NA Uspe lac AIN aB X D N ff Iel pa STY nd k a T LA aYn ge IRE S pO reY Os rO PIG ers thle URE e.c Bla 32 ac CT tIc NT Om na : -33 O pU sp c Bla R m lar Osa h sO stY ne k rU ck ck att pUB rO pIg O B s, l pa .cO lat pren Ber rtY hUm IcItY eX e f apr m eX phr Bla gl ac On pO eY ck Ov e s w .cO the es: hIel /ch m rm PRIA d m aIn THA pa de Op PE as : TH ge me za NK Y la pr k, EL ne 34n stIc Iap t O EA O 3 an re d a Ba U THE str e.cO ne pren 5 ge ask Yn RM Ip B m O ma la al e AN elt rU prene fac tte dI akI :N BBe e s c es OO al r p ch hIe va O fe arl Br l f Up es KA Uc nc rrIg O rO pY t h ld m ch nO er eg n em m TH paw arn ask Ok vIc OBe arr O Ica E L s, s ess : PR a.c tO rt h ett l g EAT IlIc , st IAP Om r j ar lO HER On rIpe E. eff rIs ve MA e pU d n s, j rIc reYs eO Oc N th ppY h nO II p kst ele taIl ren ah la kIng dY ath BUt e g ra OU mIch fag p & er t p aU t el BO ma lUg ntl et, spa Ot n.c : ma mag sOn s: m O a nk r : ja d k lO zIne Od m sO avId Uq el n sO p Ue trO, sea Icar wn n& d . YBO Yd wIll e trY sIgn ca pa stet rY n w Ul vI te ta rO aec le Ber hte tz r as MA h RC BE RK + LEY

cr ed Its

S a f e
a rites xxxii health official advice