{"title":"Aurora Kalos","description":"\u003cp\u003eAurora Kalos paints women at the edge of dream and waking. Her oil portraits move between the hyperreal and the surreal — demons, spirits, animals, and celestial imagery surfacing around figures caught mid-transformation. Across works such as Awakening, Cassiopeia, and Open Sky, she returns to mental health, spirituality, and the strange, quiet interior life of her subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExplore more \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/paintings\"\u003eoriginal paintings\u003c\/a\u003e by Aurora Kalos, or discover other \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/artists\"\u003eartists\u003c\/a\u003e at Art of NOMA.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pink-demon-original-painting-by-aurora-kalos","title":"Pink Demon Original Painting by Aurora Kalos","description":"\u003cp\u003eAurora Kalos paints women at the edge of dream and waking, her portraits moving between the hyperreal and the surreal as spirits and animals surface around figures caught mid-transformation. 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