Impossible Maze Blower Moodmat
A stylized figure holding a glass tube and a heavy round orb, standing inside a black and white room of impossible geometry. Fine stipple work by Dennis Kwade, screen printed on eleven by eight inches of recycled rubber.
The Print
A Room That Cannot Be Built
The background is the ambitious part. A black and white field of interlocking geometry runs the width of the mat, built out of stacked hexagonal blocks that fit together at angles no real object would tolerate. Follow one edge and it hands you off to a face that should be on the other side of the solid. Stipple shading does all the tonal work, dot by dot, with no flat grey anywhere, so the whole thing reads as engraved rather than printed. It is the kind of drawing that rewards standing closer instead of stepping back.
The figure fills the lower half and it is stylized rather than realistic, rendered in marbled blue, teal and olive that swirl through the body like polished stone. One hand holds a small glass tube. The other holds a large round orb, heavy enough that the pose has weight to it. Set against a background with no reliable up or down, a solid figure holding two solid objects becomes the only thing in the composition you can trust. A stylized signature sits at the lower left.
It is a flat screen print in standard ink, no UV and no second state, and it is one of the few prints in this catalog where the technique is a bigger part of the appeal than the subject. Fine line and stipple on reclaimed rubber is a hard thing to pull off. Whoever ran this screen pulled it off.
Designed By
Dennis Kwade
Kwade signs the front at lower left and marks the back with a logo of a snake coiled around a dripping upright blade, the handle @DENNISKWADE, and the moodmats wordmark. There is also a row of raised braille style dots screened across the back that we have not managed to decode, which we mention because pretending we know what it says would be worse. No biography here that we cannot source. What we can say is that the linework on the front is his and the stipple work is the best on our shelf.
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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.
Signed Work, With No Number on It
There is no number box on this mat. Not on the front, not on the back, and no run size anywhere on our sheet, so we do not claim one and we are not going to invent one to make the listing sound better. What the piece actually carries is a signature on the front, the artist mark on the back, and stipple detail that is expensive to print. We have one of them.
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 | Rectangle |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, full color, standard ink | |
| UV | None. Standard ink only |
| Artist | Dennis Kwade, signed on the front and marked on the back |
| Edition | No run number printed. Not 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.
No UV on This One
Standard ink, full color, no reactive application anywhere. A blacklight does nothing to it. Several Moodmats do light up under one, this print is not among them, and we would rather say so up front than have you buy a lamp for it.
A Mark on the Back We Cannot Read
The back carries a row of raised braille style dots across roughly four cells, next to the artist mark. We tried to read it and could not, and our best guess is a collaborator or a shop mark rather than a message to the buyer. We are telling you because it is on the mat you are getting and because guessing at it in print would be worse than admitting we do not know.
This Is the Exact Mat You Get
One of these exists at this shop. The photos are of the actual piece in hand, front and back, down to the speckle in the rubber, so what you see is what ships. Reclaimed stock varies sheet to sheet and this is the sheet.
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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