As I Remember Them Celf Gynhyrchiol by Bowen Shen

As I Remember Them Celf Gynhyrchiol by Bowen Shen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Gwobr Efydd A' Design Award in Cynhyrchiol Competition Category.

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As I Remember Them Celf Gynhyrchiol

by Bowen Shen

Client: Bowen Shen

Gwobr Efydd A' Design Award Winner in Cynhyrchiol Category

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The Design

About As I Remember Them Celf Gynhyrchiol

Mae'r gyfres gelf gynhyrchiol hon yn portreadu eiliadau plentyndod bob dydd trwy greu delweddau gyda chymorth deallusrwydd artiffisial. Mae'r gwaith yn canolbwyntio ar olygfeydd megis egwyl ysgol, prynhawniau haf tawel gartref, a dathliadau'r Flwyddyn Newydd, wedi'u tynnu o brofiad byw yng Ngogledd Tsieina. Wedi'i greu trwy annog dan arweiniad a golygu gweledol â llaw, mae'r gyfres yn blaenoriaethu realaeth tra'n caniatáu afreoleidd-dra gweledol cynnil sy'n adlewyrchu sut mae cof yn cadw teimlad yn hytrach na manylion union.

The Recognition

About the Gwobr Efydd A' Design Award

Mae As I Remember Them Celf Gynhyrchiol yn enillydd Gwobr Efydd A' Design Award, cydnabyddiaeth hynod fawreddog a roddir i ddyluniadau rhagorol sydd yn nodedig am greadigrwydd, dyfeisgarwch a chraffter. Mae enillwyr Efydd yn arteffactau medrus iawn a thrawiadol o greadigol sydd yn dilysu profiad helaeth, dychymyg a dyfeisgarwch eu dylunwyr. Disgwylir i As I Remember Them Celf Gynhyrchiol fod yn wrthrych uchel ei fri, a edmygir ac a anwylir, sydd yn nodedig o broffesiynol ac arloesol. Mae'r dyluniad buddugol hwn o Wobr Efydd A' Design Award yn ymgorffori arferion gorau mewn celf, gwyddoniaeth, dylunio a thechnoleg, ac yn rhagorol am ei sylw i fanylion. Mae As I Remember Them Celf Gynhyrchiol yn bodloni anghenion yn odidog, yn cyffwrdd â dyheadau, yn swyno teimladau ac yn apelio at chwilfrydedd.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: As I Remember Them is a generative art series that visualizes fragments of memory, emotion, and longing. It is an attempt to reconstruct the past through the lens of imagination.
Dimensions & Packaging: 1856 x 2464px image series
Tags: Generative AI art, Nostalgia, Childhood memories, Northern China, Visual storytelling, MidJourney, Photoshop, Digital art
Production Technology: This series was created with MidJourney, using iterative prompting and reference-based descriptions to shape culturally specific scenes. Outputs were then refined in Photoshop through compositing, retouching, and color adjustments, ensuring the final work aligned with my artistic vision and emotional intent.
Design Challenge: The greatest challenge was translating personal, culturally specific memories into AI-generated images. MidJourney lacked context for the textures of Northern Chinese life, requiring me to break scenes into elements, source references, and iteratively refine prompts. Balancing realism with the quirks of AI output, and deciding when to embrace its distortions, was both the obstacle and the creative breakthrough.
Research: Process documentation: https://bit.ly/49OvkvG

Type of Research: Practice-based creative research.
Research Objectives: To explore how AI can represent personal and culturally specific memories.
Methodology: Iterative visual experimentation and technical study.
Data Collection and Tools: Memory recall, curated reference images, MidJourney style parameters, prompting techniques, Photoshop.
Participants or Experiments: Repeated prompt and image generation cycles.
Results: Increased control over style, detail, and emotional accuracy.
Insights and Impacts: Structured prompting reduces emotional flatness in AI art.
Real Life Effects: Encourages more human-centered AI use in design and visual storytelling.
Inspiration: Bothered by how often GenAI outputs felt soulless, the project set out to render a deeply soulful subject, the emotional landscape of childhood.

I grew up in Northern China, in a hometown changed by time and distance. Through prompting, storytelling, and hands-on editing, I recreated scenes that linger in me: recess, summer solitude, New Year warmth, while embracing GenAI quirks that reflect how memory distorts and softens.
Project Duration: The project was created virtually over the span of one month in January 2025.
Operation Flow: The generative art is experienced through sequential viewing. Each image presents a self-contained moment, allowing viewers to pause, observe, and form personal associations. The series encourages slow viewing rather than interaction through controls, inviting audiences to connect individual scenes to their own memories and emotional experiences.