Blu Sun Moodmat
A primate skull with a bouquet of mushrooms erupting out of the cranium, washed in magenta and die cut to every lobe of the cluster on eight inches of recycled rubber. Limited run of 150.
The Print
A Cranium, a Bouquet, and a Wash of Magenta
The lower two thirds of the piece is a front facing primate skull in cream and pale bone white, drawn with fine hatched contour lines that do all the shading work. It has a heavy brow ridge, deep hollow cheeks and a broad rounded muzzle with a pale lavender grey underside, and a small heart shaped nasal opening in the middle of it. The eyes are the thing. They are enormous and round, far larger than anything anatomical, with concentric orange and yellow iris rings around dark red black pupils, and they carry every bit of the expression in the drawing. Nothing about the skull is grim. It is looking at you.
Out of the top and sides of the cranium comes a bouquet of mushrooms drawn as one connected cluster. One tall cream white stalk curves up and out of the middle, topped by a pale mint gilled cap with a bright blue rim. A fat orange brown cap sits beside it with a small smiling face on it. Several deep crimson caps with white highlight streaks fill the middle of the cluster, a fan of elongated yellow green caps sits behind them, and a run of pale blue and cobalt finger shaped fruiting bodies comes down the right hand side. Over all of it is a magenta to crimson wash that spills down out of the cluster, over the brow and down past the jaw like paint running, which is what ties the two halves of the drawing into one object.
The style is smooth ink outline lowbrow work with flat color and airbrush blending, no visible screen texture in the gradients, and there is no lettering anywhere on the piece. A thin electric blue glow traces the outside of the whole silhouette against the black rubber, which is a printed line rather than a reactive one. There is no UV in this print. It is standard ink, full color, and the blue rim will do nothing under a blacklight. The die cut is the other half of the craft here: the outline follows the contour of the artwork all the way around, so every cap is its own curve in the cut and the edge is a clean vertical black wall.
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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.
One Hundred Fifty Made, and the Number Comes From the Maker
One hundred and fifty is the entire production for this design and it is the maker’s own figure, published on their product page for it. We want to be straight about where that number came from, because it did not come from the mat. There is no hand inked number box on this piece and we have no photograph of the back to check against, so the run is what we quote and a position inside it is not something we will invent. Runs at this size do not come back once they are done, and this is a contour cut piece with a lot of hand work in the outline, which is not the kind of thing that gets reprinted casually.
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 inches at the widest point, approximate, per the maker’s product page |
| Shape | Die-cut to the artwork, irregular contour following every lobe of the mushroom cluster |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, full color, standard ink. Flat color with airbrush blending | |
| UV | None. The blue glow around the silhouette is printed ink, not a reactive layer |
| Artist | Not credited. No signature on the piece and none named on the maker’s page |
| Edition | Run of 150, not individually numbered |
| 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.
The Blue Glow Is Printed, Not Reactive
There is a thin electric blue line tracing the outside of the silhouette and a blue rim on one of the caps, and both of them look like they should light up. They do not. This is standard ink with no reactive layer anywhere in it, so a blacklight does nothing to this mat. We would rather say so now than have you buy it for a glow it does not have.
A Contour Cut Has Delicate Places
The outline follows the artwork, which is the whole appeal, and it also means there are narrow sections of rubber where the cut runs between two mushroom caps and out along the tall stalk. Those are the thinnest parts of the mat. Do not drag it by a cap, do not fold it back on itself, and store it flat rather than rolled. Handled normally it is fine, and you should know where the weak spots are before it arrives.
One Photo, and No Back Shot
We have one image of this mat and it is the front. There is no photograph of the back, so we make no claim at all about maker marks, a printed run line or a number on the reverse. The run of 150 comes from the maker’s own product page for this design and not from anything we have seen on the piece. That is the honest version and it is the version on this page.
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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