Kaleidoscope Bloom Moodmat
A stained glass style mandala built from nested outline bands on eight inches square of recycled rubber, which inverts and reads in negative under a blacklight. Art by Brian Hunter Art, run of twenty five.
The Print
One Mandala, Two Pictures
Start with the lamp, because on this one the lamp is the whole argument. Nearly the entire printed field is reactive. Under a blacklight the mint bands blow out to near white, the blues shift to violet indigo, the teals go cyan and the golds go acid yellow green, while the orange reds pull round toward coral pink. At the same time every black keyline in the drawing goes dead, along with the near black navy and the deep green at the outside of the pattern. The result is that the mandala reads in negative. The lines that hold the picture together in daylight simply are not there, the fills take over the job, and what you are looking at is a second image built out of the same ink. This is the strongest reactive print in the batch.
In daylight it is a stained glass window, or a coloring book page that somebody actually finished. The whole thing is built from nested concentric outline bands. Every shape in it is ringed by two to five parallel bands that step from light to dark, and every band is separated from its neighbor by a fine, even black keyline. There are no gradients anywhere on the mat, which on a screen printed piece is a choice rather than a limitation, and it is the choice that makes the lit state work.
The composition runs from the center out. A small dark medallion at the middle holds a multicolor starburst, ringed by an eight petal lotus star in teal and blue. Around that sits a warm hexagonal rosette of yellow and gold lozenges with orange red kites wedged in between them, and that is the last of the warm color. Outside it the field turns cool. Four large ogee lobes step from pale sky blue through mid blue to a near black navy and meet at the midpoints of the four sides, and each corner holds a stepped diamond running mint to kelly green to teal to deep green. No lettering, no signature, no border device. The print runs nearly to the edge of the blank with about a quarter inch of bare black rubber left as a margin.
Designed By
Brian Hunter Art
The back of the mat carries the artist’s name in white brush script next to the moodmats wordmark, with a number box inked in by hand underneath. That is what the piece itself tells us and we are not going to pad it out with a biography we cannot source. The work says the more useful thing anyway. This is a hand built symmetrical construction where every one of several hundred bands had to be planned as its own flat area of ink, and somebody then chose which of those areas would carry the reactive pass. The negative read under a blacklight is designed, not lucky.
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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.
Twenty Five, With the Artist’s Name on the Back
Twenty five is the entire production for this design. The back is screened with the artist’s name and the moodmats wordmark and then hand inked with a number out of twenty five, which is a person with a pen rather than a counter on a press. We quote the run size and not the figure inside it, because that figure changes from piece to piece and there are two of these here. What we can tell you is that twenty five exist, that the numbering is real and done by hand, and that we have two 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 | 8 by 8 inches, approximate |
| Shape | Square, printed panel with roughly a quarter inch of bare rubber margin |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, full color with a UV reactive application. Flat bands, no gradients | |
| UV | Near total. Almost the whole printed field reacts. Black keylines and the darkest cores go dead, so the pattern reads in negative |
| Artist | Brian Hunter Art |
| Edition | Run of 25, hand numbered on the back. The figure varies piece to 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.
UV Needs a Blacklight
Reactive is not glow in the dark. It will not charge up in daylight and shine on its own in a dark room. It needs a 365nm or 395nm blacklight on it, and with one on it this is the best reactive print we have handled in a while. Both states are photographed on this page, normal light first and lit second, so you can see exactly what a lamp buys you before you spend anything.
The Panel Sits Slightly Off Center
Worth saying before you order. The printed panel is not perfectly centered on the blank, so the bare rubber margin is a little wider on one side than on the other. It is small, and on a table you will stop noticing it inside a day. This is a hand screened print on reclaimed sheet stock and small registration drift is part of that, but if you are planning to frame this one, that is the detail that will matter to you.
The Number on the Back Varies
Two of these are on the shelf and each is inked by hand with a different figure out of twenty five. We do not publish the number, and the number visible in any photo on this page is not a promise about the one that ships to you. What we can tell you is the run size and that the numbering is real, done by hand on the back under the artist’s name.
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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