As I Remember Them Ọrụ Bụ Isi: Nka E Mepụtara by Bowen Shen

As I Remember Them Ọrụ Bụ Isi: Nka E Mepụtara by Bowen Shen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz in Nhazi Mmeputaime, Algọridim, Paramịtrịk na Enyemaka AI Competition Category.

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As I Remember Them Ọrụ Bụ Isi: Nka E Mepụtara

by Bowen Shen

Client: Bowen Shen

Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz Winner in Mmeputaime Category

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The Design

About As I Remember Them Ọrụ Bụ Isi: Nka E Mepụtara

Ederede Akwụkwọ: Usoro nka a e mepụtara na-egosi oge nkịtị nke ọ̀tụtụ nwata site na imepụta onyonyo nke AI nyere aka. Ọrụ a na-elekwasị anya n'ihe ndị dị ka oge ezumike ụlọakwụkwọ, ehihie okpomọkụ jụụ n'ụlọ, na ememme Afọ Ọhụrụ, nke esi na ahụmịhe ndụ na Ugwu China nweta. E mepụtara ya site na nduzi prọmpti na ndozi onyonyo aka, usoro a na-eburu ụzọ na-elekwasị anya n'eziokwu ma na-ekwe ka enwee obere mgbagha onyonyo na-egosi otú ncheta si echekwa mmetụta kama nkọwa ziri ezi.

The Recognition

About the Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz

As I Remember Them Ọrụ Bụ Isi: Nka E Mepụtara meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz, nnabata dị oke ugwu e nyere design ndị pụtara ìhè nke a ma ama maka nzụlite ihe, ọgụgụ isi na nghọta. Ndị meriri na Bronz bụ ihe e mere nke ndị nwere nka nke ukwuu ma dị mma n'imepụta nke na-egosi ahụmahụ buru ibu, echiche na ọgụgụ isi nke ndị designer ha. A na-atụ anya na As I Remember Them Ọrụ Bụ Isi: Nka E Mepụtara ga-abụ ihe a na-asọpụrụ nke ukwuu, a na-eto na a hụrụ n'anya, nke dị oke ọrụ ma dị ọhụrụ. Design a meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz na-agụnye ụzọ kacha mma n'ime nka, sayensị, design na teknụzụ, ma dị mma nke ukwuu maka nlebara anya ya n'obere ihe. As I Remember Them Ọrụ Bụ Isi: Nka E Mepụtara na-emezu mkpa nke ọma, na-emetụ ọchịchọ aka, na-adọrọ mmetụta obi ma na-adọta ọchịchọ ịmara.

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.