The Search for the Absolute Born in Charlesbourg in 1902, Ulric-Aimé Paradis lived a life that moved between the structured world of teaching and a private, intense pursuit of the spiritual. He was a man who understood the weight of matter. His work was not a matter of simple decoration but a physical engagement with the surface. He spent decades exploring how an accident could become a deliberate part of a composition. In his studio,…