McBucks Moodmat
A wildstyle graffiti piece in deep green and dripping gold, sitting on stacked cash, loose coins and cut diamonds. Die cut on twelve inches of recycled rubber, artist series run of 150.
The Print
Green, Gold and Dripping
The lettering is the piece and it does not care whether you can read it. Deep forest green fills every letterform, each one outlined in a bright yellow gold that separates it from its neighbors, and the shapes interlock so tightly that arrows, bars and tails from one letter run straight through the body of the next. Molten gold runs off the bottom edge of the whole thing in slow heavy drips, thicker where two letters meet. Look at it long enough and the word resolves. Look at it for two seconds and you get a single green and gold mass with weight to it, which is what a piece like this is actually built to do.
Underneath, the money. Bundles of green cash sit banded and stacked like bricks, with the bands drawn as plain paper strips rather than as any particular currency. Gold coins spill loose out of the gaps between the bundles, each one rendered with a hard highlight so it reads as metal rather than as a yellow circle. Cut white diamonds sit in among them with their facets picked out in fine line work, and they are the only cool color anywhere on the mat. Nothing is happening in the scene. It is a pile, drawn well, and the letters are standing on it.
Two smaller marks finish the composition. A loose white tag runs across the bottom left corner in a fast single stroke hand, the way a writer signs a piece rather than titles it, and the maker’s own small wordmark sits opposite it bottom right. There is no reactive ink in the print, so a blacklight leaves it alone. The die cut follows the outer edge of the letterforms and the drips, so there is no rectangle anywhere on it and what lands on your table is the piece itself rather than a photo of a wall.
Designed By
GROE
Credited by the maker as GROE, which is a writer name rather than a legal one, and that is where we are leaving it. Nothing biographical is claimed here. The print tells you enough about the approach on its own: strict wildstyle construction with no character work and no scene, a palette held to two colors plus metal, and a subject picked because it lets the gold do double duty as both drip and treasure.
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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.
A Run of One Hundred Fifty
One hundred fifty is the whole production for this design. There is no hand inked number on the piece, so the run size is what we quote and we are not going to invent a position inside it. Moodmats rotates artist collaborations out of the catalog when a run is finished and does not go back and print a design again, which is what makes the number worth stating at all. We have one.
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, letterforms and drips included, irregular outline |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, full color, standard ink | |
| UV | None. Standard ink only |
| Artist | GROE |
| 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.
No UV on This One
Standard ink, full color, no reactive application in the print. A blacklight does nothing to it. Plenty of Moodmats do light up under one and this design is not among them, and we would rather say so now than have you set a lamp over it expecting the gold to do something.
Die-Cut Means Irregular Edges
The outline follows the letterforms and the drips, so you get arrow points, sharp corners and a ragged dripping bottom edge instead of a clean rectangle. The listed twelve inches is the widest point rather than a uniform footprint, and the arrow tips and drip ends are the thinnest sections of rubber on the piece. Measure your space if it is tight.
These Are the Maker’s Photos For Now
We have one of these on the shelf and the image on this page is not a picture of it. It is the manufacturer product shot and it is one of the older files on their site, so read it as an accurate look at the print rather than at the exact sheet. Reclaimed rubber shifts in base speckle 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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