Artist Gab Bois’s Vegetable-Shaped Catch Holds More Than Just Some Trinkets

I have always been a collector of things, both useful and not so useful. As a kid, I collected tiny erasers shaped like animals and food, and rocks that looked like other objects. One of my collections now is ceramic dishes shaped like fruits and vegetables, which I started after seeing an exhibition on the history of French cuisine at the Pointe-à-Callière museum in Montreal, where I live. It displayed all these wild ceramics and glassware inspired by food items, like a cake cover that resembled a four-tiered cake. Sometime after that, I was in a thrift store and saw a big dish shaped like an ear of corn, and that became the first piece of my food-shaped ceramic collection.