"Friends" (2025) Original Mixed-media Painting by Fefa Koroleva

What Is Friendship?
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In childhood, it’s one thing.
It feels like a wondrous world that sweeps you off your feet.
Like an adventure, where you travel between worlds and discover a new one together with a friend.
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I didn’t have that kind of friendship in my childhood.
So I could only dream about it.
And in those dreams, that’s exactly how it looked.
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As you grow older, the feeling of friendship changes.
It might be built on shared interests or views — or not at all.
But it becomes something you experience together.
And perhaps, for me, one of the most important things in friendship is the feeling of safety — and the trust in that safety.
When you know that differences in size, strength, ability, or opportunity will never cause harm or bring pain.
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Materials used:

ink, acrylics, pastel, markers, cardboard

Details:

• Mixed-media painting on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 27 x 27 x 0.3cm (unframed) / 27 x 27cm (actual image size)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Unspecified
• Subject: Animals and birds