Fungal Moodmat
A mirrored mycelium canopy over a drooling monster face and two very small people, die cut on twelve inches of recycled rubber. UV reactive under a lamp, glow in the dark with the lights off, run of 100.
The Print
A Canopy, a Monster, and Two Very Small People
Work down it and the scale keeps changing on you. The top two thirds is one enormous branching canopy, coral or mycelium depending on how you want to read it, orange fading up into yellow with red pink at the tips, split down a mirrored center seam so both halves answer each other. Below it sits a green lipped face with blocky yellow teeth and drool coming off the bottom lip, a spiral third eye set into a white rectangular panel above the brow. Below that again, two black human silhouettes with backpacks stand on a bright green ridge and look up, and they are the only things on the whole mat drawn at human scale. A white halftone comet streaks through a black star field under their feet.
The edges are where it stops being a picture and starts being an object. Two mirrored giraffe heads rise on long spotted necks either side of center, white line art beast faces with feathered crests standing behind them, cracked white skulls sitting in the lower corners. The entire outer rim is a scalloped bank of white and grey halftone cloud with roughly two dozen small orange capped mushrooms growing out of it, and the die follows that rim rather than a rectangle, shallow notch at the top center included. Bare black rubber shows for a quarter inch or so outside the print, uneven the whole way around because the cut traces the art. There is no lettering on it anywhere, no signature and no title, which is unusual on a piece this dense.
Then the two lighting tricks, and they are worth separating because people mix them up constantly. UV reactive means the ink answers a blacklight while the lamp is running. Here the greens fire hardest and go bright mint aqua, the mushroom stems, the drips, the teeth and the grass ridge all jumping at once, while the orange and yellow canopy converts to hot magenta with pale cyan highlights and the whites and greys go lavender blue. Glow in the dark is a different pigment doing a different job: it holds light and releases it with everything switched off. With the room dark the whites and greys charge brightest, a strong yellow green through the cloud rim, the ferns, the skulls and the comet, the green areas stay green, and the canopy settles into a dim olive amber. Two things go dead in both states. The black keyline and the two human silhouettes stay black no matter what you point at them, and under UV the giraffes are the one large color area that does not fire, dulling down to blue violet instead. In the dark the bare rubber border disappears completely, so the whole scene reads as if it is floating in nothing.
Designed By
Dark Mountain Cult
Credited on the maker’s product page as @darkmountaincult, and nothing further is claimed here. That handle reads as a collective rather than one person’s name, which is the reason this listing carries a run number on the badge instead of an artist series tag. The credit is real either way and it belongs on the page. Whoever drew it worked in heavy keyline and flat screen ready color with the halftone texture built into the artwork rather than added by the press, which is a specific way of working and it is why a twelve inch print this busy still reads clean from across a room.
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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 Made, and No Number on the Piece
One hundred is the whole production for this design according to the maker. There is no hand inked figure anywhere on the printed face, we have no photo of the back of one, and we are not going to invent a position in the run, so the number we give you is the size of the run and nothing finer than that. Two came in on our first wholesale order and two is what is on the 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 | 12 inches at the widest point, approximate |
| Shape | Die-cut to the artwork, irregular scalloped outline |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, full color, heavy halftone texture | |
| UV and Glow | Both. UV reactive under a blacklight, glow in the dark once charged |
| Artist | Dark Mountain Cult, credited by the maker |
| Edition | Run of 100, 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.
UV Reactive and Glow in the Dark Are Two Different Things
One needs a blacklight switched on and gives you shifted colors while the lamp runs. The other needs the room properly dark and gives you a soft yellow green afterimage that fades as the charge runs down. This print does both, which is genuinely uncommon, but they do not happen at the same time and neither one looks like the photo of the other. Leave it under normal room light or under the blacklight for a while first if you want the glow to come up strong.
Die-Cut Means Irregular Edges
The cut follows the scalloped cloud and mushroom rim of the artwork, so the outline is lumpy on purpose and there is a shallow notch at the top center. The listed twelve inches is the widest point rather than a uniform footprint, and the print bleeds nearly to the cut, so the bare margin around it is narrow and uneven all the way around. Measure your space if it is tight.
These Are the Maker’s Photos For Now
All three images on this page, the normal light shot, the blacklight shot and the lights out shot, are the manufacturer’s product photography rather than pictures of a mat in our hands. Read them as an accurate look at the print and at how it behaves, not as a picture of the exact sheet you will get. The rubber underneath is reclaimed scrap and base speckle shifts from mat to mat. Our own photos are on the list.
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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