Naxaas Abuuris · 2026
As I Remember Them Hawlaha Aasaasiga ah: Farshaxan Soo-saaray
by Bowen Shen
- Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award 2026 in Abuuris
- CLIENT: Bowen Shen
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 11,969
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About As I Remember Them Hawlaha Aasaasiga ah: Farshaxan Soo-saaray
Qoraalka Buugga: Taxanahan farshaxanka soo-saaray wuxuu sawiraa daqiiqadaha maalin walba ee carruurnimada iyada oo loo marayo abuurista sawirka oo ay caawiso AI. Shaqadu waxay diiradda saaraysaa muuqaalada sida nasashada dugsiga, galabyada xagaaga ee xasilloon ee guriga, iyo dabaaldegyada Sannadka Cusub, oo laga soo qaaday waayo-aragnimada nololeed ee Waqooyiga Shiinaha. Iyada oo loo abuuray faafaahin la hagayo iyo tafatir muuqaal oo gacanta lagu sameeyay, taxanahu wuxuu mudnaanta siiyaa dhabnimada isaga oo u oggolaanaya khaladaad muuqaal oo aan caadi ahayn oo ka tarjumaya sida xusuusta ay u xafiddo dareenka halkii ay ka xafidi lahayd faahfaahin sax ah.
About the Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award
As I Remember Them Hawlaha Aasaasiga ah: Farshaxan Soo-saaray waa guuleystaha Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award, aqoonsi sharaf sare leh oo la siiyo naqshado aan caadi ahayn oo lagu garto hal-abuur, hal-abuur cusub iyo caqli. Guuleystayaasha Naxaasta waa shaqooyin xirfad buuxda leh iyo hal-abuur yaab leh oo xaqiijiya khibrad weyn, male-awaal iyo kartida naqshadeeyayaashooda. As I Remember Them Hawlaha Aasaasiga ah: Farshaxan Soo-saaray waa walax la filayo inay noqoto mid aad loo tixgeliyo, la ixtiraamo oo la jecel yahay, xirfad cad leh oo hal-abuur cusub leh. Naqshadahan ku guuleystay Abaalmarinta Naxaasta ah ee A' Design Award wuxuu ku darsadaa hab-dhaqanno ugu wanaagsan farshaxanka, sayniska, naqshadaynta iyo tignoolajiyada wuxuuna ku fiican yahay dhawrista tafaasiisha. As I Remember Them Hawlaha Aasaasiga ah: Farshaxan Soo-saaray si fiican ayay u buuxisaa baahiyaha, taabataa rabitaannada, soo jiidataa dareenka kicinayaanna xiisaha aqoonta.
Press Kit
- 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.
