710 Crossing Moodmat
A drooling cat on a round grass island with a net full of bud and sacks of coin, drawn in soft colored pencil and cut to an octagon. Dark Mountain Cult drop piece, fifteen made.
The Print
A Cat, an Island, and a Very Good Day
The middle of the mat is a small round island, grass on top with a scalloped edge, ringed by blue swirl water. Standing on it is a cat, brown and cream, in a plain green tee, holding a lit joint in one paw with a line of drool coming off its chin and its eyes at half mast. Green smoke curls up and off the top of the composition. Nothing about the pose is subtle and none of it is trying to be.
Around that sit the props, and the props are the joke. A blue net swings in from behind the figure with a fat bud sitting in the hoop where a butterfly is supposed to be. Two cloth sacks marked with stars sit on the grass either side, the kind of prize money bag a game hands you for turning something in. Off to the left a pale disc printed with a cat face floats in the sky, stamped 710, which is OIL upside down and the whole reason the piece exists.
The print itself is the unusual part. It is drawn in soft colored pencil rather than flat vector, so the blue sky graduates, the green ground carries a visible halftone screen, and the line work stays loose instead of snapping to a hard outline. The octagon cut leaves a wide black margin the whole way around, so the art sits inset like a print in a mount rather than bleeding to the edge. There is no UV in it.
A Collaboration
Dark Mountain Cult x Lukke Tattoos
Two makers share the back of this one. The Dark Mountain Cult moth row, the script mark, the handle and the trade, sell and collect line run across the top, along with the pointer to their art group. Lukke Tattoos is credited underneath with its own handle, then the moodmats wordmark, then a number box inked by hand out of fifteen. Dark Mountain Cult builds their releases around drops rather than store pages, which is why their pieces move fast and do not come back.
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On Video
See It In Hand
Photos only get you so far. This is the actual piece, shot in our hands, so you can see the scale, the finish and how it behaves in real light before you buy it.
Made in New Jersey Since 2009
Rubber That Already Had a First Life
Moodmats started with scraps from old wetsuits and discarded scuba and surf neoprene, material that was headed straight for a landfill. That became Lava Rubber, and Lava Rubber is what every Moodmat is cut from. The feedstock now comes from wetsuits, gaskets, weatherstripping, seat molds, and other clean scrap that gets collected or donated. More than two tons of it moves through the New Jersey shop every month, gets pressed into sheet stock, then die-cut and screen printed. Keeping that material out of the ground has been the point from day one.
Closed-Cell Neoprene
Closed-cell rubber does not drink up what you spill on it. Water, reclaim, and terp splash sit on the surface instead of soaking in, so a wipe with soapy water puts it back to new.
It Stays Put
The rubber grips whatever it is sitting on and grips whatever you set on top. A rig that would skate across a glass table or a finished desk stops moving the second it lands on a Moodmat.
Tough and Self-Extinguishing
Heat resistant, self-extinguishing, and built out of material that already survived a first life. This is not a printed coaster that curls after a month on the table.
Where People Actually Put These
It Does Not Have to Hold a Rig
A Moodmat protects a surface and grips what sits on it. Whether that thing is a banger, a camera, or nothing at all is up to you. They are called Moodmats for a reason. Pick the one that matches how you feel and put it wherever it belongs.
Rig and Glass Pad
The job it was built for. Keeps glass off hard surfaces and keeps hard surfaces off your glass.
Display Surface
Figures, models, controllers, dice, cameras, watches. Anything worth setting on something intentional.
Wall Art
Plenty of these never touch a table. Hang it, frame it, or pin it behind the setup and let the print do the work.
Desk and Everyday
Trivet for hot pans, landing spot for keys, pad under a pet bowl, cushion on a camp table.
Why It Matters
Runs End. Prints Do Not Come Back.
Moodmats print in runs, and runs end. Once a design is out, it is out. Artist collabs and drop exclusives regularly land in quantities of ten to twenty five pieces, which is why the people who collect these track drops, trade them, and frame the ones they will never put a rig on. If this specific print matters to you, the time to grab it is while it is still on the shelf.
Fifteen Made, the Smallest Run in This Group
Fifteen is the entire production for this design and it is the shortest run of anything we brought in on this batch. It went out through a Dark Mountain Cult drop, so it was never listed on moodmats.com and there is no restock to sit and wait for. The back is inked by hand out of fifteen, which means every piece in the run is accounted for on the mat itself rather than on somebody’s spreadsheet.
No Reprints
Moodmats does not go back and run a sold-out design again. When this one is gone from our shelf and theirs, the only way to get it is from somebody who already has one.
Worth Hanging
A print this limited does not have to earn its keep under a rig. Plenty of these end up on a wall, in a frame, or stacked with the rest of a collection.
The Details
Specs and Care
| Size | 8 by 8 inches across the flats, approximate |
| Shape | Octagon, eight straight sides, wide black margin with the art inset |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, full color, standard ink, visible halftone | |
| UV | None. Standard ink only |
| Artists | Dark Mountain Cult x Lukke Tattoos |
| Edition | Run of 15, hand numbered on the back |
| Release | Drop exclusive, never sold on moodmats.com |
| Origin | Made in New Jersey, USA |
Wipe it down with warm water and a little dish soap, then let it air dry flat. That is the whole routine. Do not run it through a washing machine or a dryer, do not scrub the print with an abrasive pad, and do not rest a lit torch or a glowing-hot banger directly on the surface. Use a stand or a puck for anything still at temperature.
Straight Talk
Know Before You Buy
Upcycled Means Variation
The rubber is reclaimed scrap, so base color, speckle, and surface texture shift slightly from sheet to sheet. Two mats of the same design will not be photocopies of each other. That is how you know it is the real material and not virgin stock.
Heat Resistant, Not Heatproof
The rubber is self-extinguishing and handles warm gear without complaint. It is not a torch pad. Park anything still glowing on a proper stand or a quartz puck, not on the print.
No UV on This One
Standard ink, full color, no reactive application anywhere in it. A blacklight does nothing. Several Moodmats in this category do light up and this print is not one of them, and we would rather say so here than have you plug a lamp in and wonder what went wrong.
The Art Does Not Reach the Edge
The eight by eight is the outline of the rubber, not the size of the picture. A wide black margin runs all the way around and the scene sits inset inside it, which is how the piece was designed. If you were expecting art to the edge, this is not that, and the border is the reason it reads like something framed.
This Is the Exact Mat, Minus the Number
One of these is on the shelf and the photos are of that actual piece, front and back. What we will not do is quote you a position in the run, so the page says one of fifteen and leaves the inked figure off. The rubber is reclaimed scrap, so the base speckle under the print is its own as well.
Set the Mood
Recycled rubber, made in the USA, printed with art worth looking at. Free shipping on orders over $75, and every order ships from a veteran-owned small business.
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