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As I Remember Them උත්පාදක කලාව by Bowen Shen

As I Remember Them උත්පාදක කලාව by Bowen Shen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award ලෝකඩ සම්මානය in ජනනක, ඇල්ගොරිතමික, පරාමිතික සහ AI-සහාය නිර්මාණය Competition Category.


ලෝකඩජනනක· 2026

As I Remember Them උත්පාදක කලාව

by Bowen Shen

Client: Bowen Shen

A' Design Award ලෝකඩ සම්මානය Winner in ජනනක Category

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The Design

About As I Remember Them උත්පාදක කලාව

මෙම උත්පාදක කලා මාලාව AI සහාය ඇතිව රූප නිර්මාණය හරහා දෛනික ළමා කාල මොහොතන් නිරූපණය කරයි. මෙම කෘතිය උතුරු චීනයේ ජීවන අත්දැකීම් වලින් උකහා ගත් පාසල් විවේකය, නිවසේ නිහඬ ගිම්හාන සවස්වරු, සහ අලුත් අවුරුදු සැමරුම් වැනි දර්ශන කෙරෙහි අවධානය යොමු කරයි. මඟ පෙන්වන ලද ඉඟි සහ අතින් කරන දෘශ්‍ය සංස්කරණය හරහා නිර්මාණය කරන ලද මෙම මාලාව, මතකය නිවැරදි විස්තර වෙනුවට හැඟීම් රැක ගන්නා ආකාරය පිළිබිඹු කරන සියුම් දෘශ්‍ය අක්‍රමිකතා ඉඩ දෙමින් යථාර්ථවාදයට ප්‍රමුඛත්වය දෙයි.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award ලෝකඩ සම්මානය

As I Remember Them උත්පාදක කලාව යනු A' Design Award ලෝකඩ සම්මානය දිනූ නිර්මාණයකි; නිර්මාණශීලිත්වය, දක්ෂතාව සහ තීක්ෂ්ණ බුද්ධියෙන් කැපී පෙනෙන විශිෂ්ට නිර්මාණ සඳහා පිරිනමන අතිශය ගෞරවනීය පිළිගැනීමකි. ලෝකඩ ජයග්‍රාහී නිර්මාණ ප්‍රමාණවත් ලෙස දක්ෂ සහ කැපී පෙනෙන ලෙස නිර්මාණශීලී කෘති වන අතර නිර්මාණකරුවන්ගේ පුළුල් අත්දැකීම්, පරිකල්පනය සහ සම්පත්දායකත්වය තහවුරු කරයි. As I Remember Them උත්පාදක කලාව ඉහළින් අගය කරන, ප්‍රශංසා කරන සහ ආදරය කරන දෙයක් වනු ඇතැයි අපේක්ෂා කෙරේ, කැපී පෙනෙන ලෙස වෘත්තීය සහ නවීන. As I Remember Them උත්පාදක කලාව අවශ්‍යතා විශිෂ්ට ලෙස සපුරයි, ආශාවන් ස්පර්ශ කරයි, හැඟීම් වශීකරණය කරයි සහ කුතුහලය අවදි කරයි.

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.

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