Exhibition of paintings by Roee Suffrin
On display for one year in my home. Yehoshua Rahamim Dufour

Poem by the scribe, your servant
who recorded the spontaneous words
expressed by visitors as they stood
before the painting of Roee Suffrin:
words whispered in confidence,
uncontrolled and uncontrollable.
With these words, the visitors,
all without exception,
and at each occasion,
discovered in his works,
the experience of a great painter,
his gaze, his inner life
projected on a canvas which speaks and looks at them.
On each occasion, I recorded the words
that soared, from their hearts, before me.

1
Oh, the gaze
becomes a celestial encounter,
perfect prayer,
purity direct.
This is the essence,
no need to please.
No words to express,
the encounter is perfect.
Everything is here, I forget the rest.

2
The second life is here,
eternal embrace
in a multidimensional
multiplicity.
You
painter-eternal-child
gave me
the mirror of infinity
in every color
in every stroke.

3
I will no longer be able to forget
that the paintings
exist within me
wherever I go,
wherever the world exists.
Henceforth, every gaze
is a gaze that shines.
He who revealed this to me,
if he is not a prophet,
he is Jewish, he gave me
the universal connection
and the gaze that knows.

4
Every being is nobility
henceforth.
Every gaze is intimacy
and majesty.
Life is no longer forgotten.
Eyes stare wide-eyed
at happiness revealed.

5
The painter labored at
his painting. I purchased it.
I acquired eternity.
Paradise is revealed,
Inhabiting the secret
intimacy of my house renewed.
Happy Jewish children
of this modest painter,
son of great prophets.
From birth,
he transmits to them
the river of eternity.

6
My acquired painting
is an eternal family
dating Retour to Bereshit.
Here God is truth,
There is no false seduction.
The romance is constant,
breath perfumed.

7
Such a work, only
a king, a queen
can buy.
It is not a decorative work,
it is the perfect gift
in the art of contemplating
hopes discovered
in contemplation given.
I bought a breath
that cannot be forgotten.
He labored
to achieve it.
He lent it to me.

8
Hafez, the inimitable Persian
trained you in Iran:
be a rebel, he said, and be grateful,
drink the wine of humanity.
Be the pearl infinitely capable
of receiving the light that is given.

And Saadi told you so wisely
that all humans are one entity
so modestly you shared
with everyone
without ever cheating,
with dignity, and truth,
the roses of the Garden of happiness
which your ancestors bequeathed to you.

Saadi revealed to you
that respiration is a blessing renewed,
Bezalel perpetuated
and you depicted it for us
in the painting of the two figures
sounding of the shofar
and in the painting of generations marching
sustained by the Torah.

Like your painting, the children
whom we beget,
among a people who see voices,
will reveal to us even more.

Paradise is here.
Roee Suffrin – thank you.