Anaïs Odoux hand-colors each piece of her constructivist collages

French art director and illustrator Anaïs Odoux creates entirely analogue collages using only colored pencils and paper. Each work begins as tiny shards of thick grainy paper, which she carves with color gradients before assembling them into seamless compositions. Her favorite subjects include still lifes of club sandwiches, croissants, fashion accessories, and other edible scenes. Odoux cites Henri Matisse as a long-time influence and has recently discovered American painter Shirley Jaffe, whose abstract work inspires her. While she has primarily produced fixed images, she is now exploring stop-motion animation, cutting apples to their core and constructing handbags through a collage Tetris-like process. Her works, such as "Breakfast," "Banana," and "Jacquemus bag," are dated 2026.