I said a work is a mutation. Rochelle Owens - 1988

The reason is that I feel they exert on those who look at them an inner, lasting impression and they arouse and reveal in people the challenges of light and routine.
But even more so, the paintings evoke in each of us, here and now, the presence of a powerful source of light which surges out more strongly than the entire frame that surrounds them and this source mobilizes the strength of the model and that of the onlooker, connecting him to things which he thought were no more than just the stuff of daily life and enabling him to see what he did not see before – that he is the proprietor of a terrain of surging sources of life.

The presence of this radiography of being serves as a mirror for the onlooker, spurring him to say: I feel a little bit more convinced each time of the unfailing presence in me of this light.
While there are no more prophets, our tradition assures us that we are the sons of prophets, that is, of those who see and teach us to see what exists: life is infinitely more powerful than doubt. This light pinpoints the target: objective reality in more sense than one.

The role of a painter may be a humble one. But when he gives us this – particularly when it comes from a man still young of age and who does it with humility – our strengths are awakened.
I have expressed this in words.

It is his role to express it in images, and yours to feel the inner image and feeling.
He awakens in us the “Hear truly Israel: he who is the God of us all, it is He, a living, powerful unity of being. And he is ONE. So is our being in this presence.
Let us listen then for a moment to these images of Roee Suffrin and find in them: subjects presented as simple reality, the reflective concentration of the figures, darkness, and the zone where strength and powerful joy surge forth and radiate.