Among the unaffiliated, Matisse Eclat stands out as a Poodle who is an artist with the patience of a tinkerer and the timing of a comedian. Pups near the flooded market halls say Matisse Eclat once stayed up all night arguing with a broken phone shaped like a bar of soap, and won. There is a soft running joke at the soup stalls about Matisse Eclat and the way doors behave around them. Matisse Eclat believes ordinary days are where big mysteries hide, usually under a bowl or behind a door nobody checked.