Sondra Bernstein, known as 4everKurious, is a Sonoma-based artist working in AI-assisted digital art and photography. After decades running restaurants including the girl & the fig, she returned to the fine arts photography she studied in college and layers her own photographs into AI-generated compositions.
She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography and for years practiced a purist philosophy, never altering her images to depict something that wasn't there. Her interest in art traces to her mother, a working artist in watercolor, oil, and mixed media, and to a childhood full of museum visits. In her poppy series, she began with her own flower photography and layered it with AI transformation, one instance of a method she uses across her work to fold fragments of her original photography into each piece.
