As I Remember Them Hana Nui: Kiʻi Hoʻokumu na Bowen Shen

ʻO As I Remember Them Hana Nui: Kiʻi Hoʻokumu na Bowen Shen he mea lanakila hanohano loa o ka 2026 A' Design Award Keleawe ma ka Māhele Hoʻokūkū Hoʻolālā Hoʻohua, ʻAlakaiʻo, Hōʻailona a me AI Kōkua.

KeleaweHoʻohua· 2026

As I Remember Them Hana Nui: Kiʻi Hoʻokumu

na Bowen Shen

Mea Kūʻai: Bowen Shen

Mea Lanakila A' Design Award Keleawe ma ka Māhele Hoʻohua

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Ka Hoʻolālā

E Pili Ana iā As I Remember Them Hana Nui: Kiʻi Hoʻokumu

Kēia pūʻulu kiʻi hoʻokumu, hōʻike ia i nā manawa kamaliʻi o kēlā me kēia lā ma o ka hana kiʻi i kōkua ʻia e ka naʻauao hoʻohālike. Ke kālele nei ka hana ma luna o nā hiʻohiʻona e like me ka hoʻomaha kula, nā ʻauinalā mālie o ke kauwela ma ka home, a me nā hoʻolauleʻa Makahiki Hou, i unuhi ʻia mai ka ʻike maoli ma ʻĀkau o Kina. I hana ʻia ma o ke alakaʻi ʻana i nā ʻōlelo kuhikuhi a me ka hoʻoponopono kiʻi lima, ke hoʻokela nei ka pūʻulu i ka ʻoiaʻiʻo ʻoiai e ʻae ana i nā mea ʻano ʻokoʻa nani i hōʻike ai i ke ʻano o ka mālama ʻana o ka hoʻomanaʻo i ka manaʻo ma mua o ka kikoʻī pololei.

Ka Hoʻomaikai

E Pili Ana i ka A' Design Award Keleawe

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā As I Remember Them Hana Nui: Kiʻi Hoʻokumu i ka A' Design Award Keleawe, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kūʻokoʻa i ʻike ʻia ma o ka hana noʻeau, ka akamai a me ka makakoho. He mau hana mākaukau a hana noʻeau kupaianaha nā lanakila Keleawe e hōʻoia ana i ka ʻike nui, ka noʻonoʻo a me ka maʻalea o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā As I Remember Them Hana Nui: Kiʻi Hoʻokumu he mea i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia, he ʻoihana a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Keleawe e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana, a maikaʻi no kona nānā ʻana i nā kikoʻī. Hoʻokō maikaʻi ka hoʻolālā As I Remember Them Hana Nui: Kiʻi Hoʻokumu i nā pono, hoʻopā i ka makemake, hoʻohiwahiwa i nā manaʻo a huki i ka makemake e ʻike.

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Nā hōʻoia, nā lālā hui a me nā kikoʻī ʻenehana i hāʻawi ʻia e ka mea hoʻolālā.

Nā ʻAno Kūʻokoʻa: 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.
Nā Ana a me ka Hoʻopili: 1856 x 2464px image series
Nā Lepili: Generative AI art, Nostalgia, Childhood memories, Northern China, Visual storytelling, MidJourney, Photoshop, Digital art
ʻEnehana Hana: 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.
Pilikia Hoʻolālā: 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.
Noiʻi: 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.
Hoʻoulu Manaʻo: 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.
Ka Lōʻihi o ka Papahana: The project was created virtually over the span of one month in January 2025.
Kaʻina Hana: 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.