Burtoni Moodmat
A blue headed cassowary in tropical planting, drawn by Burtoni and die cut around the foliage and the lettering on eleven by eight inches of recycled rubber.
The Print
Blue Head, Black Plume, Carved Letters
The bird takes the whole middle of the mat, turned three quarters toward you. The head and the long neck are electric blue, saturated and flat, with one round orange eye set into the side of the skull and a purple beak coming off the front of it. A gold and brown casque rides up off the top of the head like a helmet, which is the detail that makes a cassowary a cassowary. Below the neck the body stops being a bird and becomes a single shaggy black plume, drawn as a mass of loose strokes rather than as feathers, so the color of the head has nothing competing with it.
The planting around it is where the rest of the color lives. Red hibiscus blooms open at the edges, broad leaves in pink and orange fill in behind the neck, green ferns push in from the sides and a chartreuse monstera leaf sits with its splits drawn open. It reads as a section of undergrowth rather than a background, and it is doing structural work as well as decorative work, because the cut follows it.
Across the bottom, BURTONI is set in chunky letters with a carved stone treatment, thick enough to be read from across a room and shaped as though chiselled rather than typeset. The whole print is full color standard ink with no UV in it, and the outline of the rubber follows the bird, the planting and the letter block together, which is why nothing on this mat sits inside a rectangle.
Designed By
Burtoni
The name is on this piece twice. It is carved into the artwork itself along the bottom in stone cut capitals, and it is printed again on the back in rough torn edge lettering next to the moodmats wordmark. Our sheet records the mat as coming through the glass artist series, which is where Moodmats runs its named artist collaborations. Beyond that we are not going to write a biography we cannot source. The drawing speaks for itself: flat saturated color, one bold subject, and a background built to be cut around.
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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.
Nothing on This Piece Says How Many Exist
There is no number box on the back, no run size printed anywhere and no live sale line. That means we cannot tell you whether this design is open stock or a short run, and we are not going to guess in either direction. The tier on this listing is earned by the named artist alone and nothing more is claimed. What we can tell you is that it is signed front and back and that one is on our shelf.
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 | 11 by 8 inches, approximate |
| Shape | Die-cut to the artwork including foliage and lettering, irregular on all sides |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, full color, standard ink | |
| UV | None. Standard ink only |
| Artist | Burtoni, signed on the front artwork and printed on the back |
| Edition | No run size stated, no number box on the piece |
| 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 to this print. Plenty of Moodmats do light up and this is not one of them, and we would rather say so here than have you plug a lamp in and wonder what went wrong.
Irregular on Every Side
The cut follows the bird, the leaves and the lettering block, so there is no straight edge anywhere on this mat. The listed eleven by eight is the overall footprint rather than the shape of the rubber, and the thinnest sections are the fern tips and the outer petals. Handle those the way you would handle any narrow strip of rubber.
Photos Are of This Exact Mat
Front and back shots on this page are the piece on our shelf, not a maker product image. The back is worth a look because it is where the artist name is printed. The rubber underneath is reclaimed scrap, so the base speckle on this one is its own and will not match anybody else’s.
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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