Read Part 1 of this mitchmen post on Rent-A-Dude's encasement art
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| Rent -A-Dude - Statue 25 |
Often it's for brain-washing or milking purposes.
This variation seems to involve some kind of hi-tech gold plating process too
Luckily it doesn't involve immersion in a bath of chemicals.
A small compensation though, for being turned into a statue.
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| Rent -A-Dude - Statue 90 |
Clear perspex or resin is a perfect encasement medium for display.
The setting time here is clearly short enough to prevent escape
but slow enough to catch and preserve that last frantic lunge.
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| Rent -A-Dude - Bot 58 |
An unconscious male subject is laid out on a bare metal table
for examination by semi-organic, robotic arms prior to his bot 'transformation'.
You might think those feelers look as if they are burrowing inside him.
I couldn't possibly comment!
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| Rent -A-Dude - Bot 64 |
That sense of disturbing processes going on continues here
with more conventional technology and scalpel wielding arms this time.
What's more the subject is awake and aware.
A predicament that's not for the faint-hearted.
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| Rent -A-Dude - Bot 68 |
If you are not aware of Rent-A-Dude's male-transformation agenda, this looks like a clumsy alien assessment programme is in progress on an unfortunate astronaut or abductee from earth.
However creating a bot poses issues of accommodating and integrating the robotics
This installation seems to involve a somewhat perverse brand of keyhole engineering
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| Rent -A-Dude - Bot 79 |
This scanner technology skirts round the practicalities in favour of unfathomable tech wizardry.
Seemingly it's capable of brain re-programming to adapt the human to his new purpose.
The contribution of the impressive circuitry in the arches and bed is less obvious.
This device would not have looked out of place in a 50's Marvel comic.
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| Rent -A-Dude - Bot 91 |
It looks as if an entire crew of a spaceship is being processed here.
It's only their bodies being processed, by a similar non-contact transformation technology.
Their individual containment is erotic in it's own right
They don't seem unhappy about it!
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| Rent -A-Dude - Doll 05 |
Rent-A-Dude revisits his encasement techniques in the 'Toy' series.
The medium looks like latex but it becomes rigid plastic as it suddenly 'cures'.
It looks like you can use it in your own home and it doesn't stick to upholstery.
Spray-on plastic would be ideal for restraining an unruly boyfriend,
or detaining the cute workman who came to fix the leak.
But only if you get him to take his clothes off first!
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| Rent -A-Dude - Doll 37 |
This image visualises total encasement within a mannequin.
A perfectly fitting outer skin that includes a new head.
I suppose the last detail is to throw the Police off the scent
if they come looking for that handsome jogger who disappeared nearby
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| Rent -A-Dude - Doll 42 |
It's nice to have, but what can you do with such a doll?
Put him it on display of course.
These images are ca 2010 and I have note in my records suggesting the artist may be 'Brian'
No links I'm afraid. The web site referenced in these pictures no longer exists and I can't find the name in search engines (which isn't unusual these days with old material, sadly)
Read Part 1 of this mitchmen post on Rent-A-Dude's encasement art