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is affectingly personal made strange
What does the highlighted sentence want to say? Does it want to say
1. "the beautiful traces of dye are personal phenomena, but they look strange, making these personal images look like those exhibited with pride and indifference by science imagers"?
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2. "the beautiful traces of dye are personal phenomena, what makes these images different from those exhibited with pride and indifference by science imagers"?
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The eventual work has been realised as an installation in which viewers wander contemplating different soundtracks and abstract visual images – of cell structures and landscapes, casts, drawing and writings – ‘those’ they write, ‘which seem to have an equivalence with the visceral understanding of the disease’. The images of cell structures may look like those exhibited with pride and indifference by science imagers but ‘the beautiful traces of dye in biopsy material’, as they report, is affectingly personal made strange.
1. "the beautiful traces of dye are personal phenomena, but they look strange, making these personal images look like those exhibited with pride and indifference by science imagers"?
or
2. "the beautiful traces of dye are personal phenomena, what makes these images different from those exhibited with pride and indifference by science imagers"?
Context:
The eventual work has been realised as an installation in which viewers wander contemplating different soundtracks and abstract visual images – of cell structures and landscapes, casts, drawing and writings – ‘those’ they write, ‘which seem to have an equivalence with the visceral understanding of the disease’. The images of cell structures may look like those exhibited with pride and indifference by science imagers but ‘the beautiful traces of dye in biopsy material’, as they report, is affectingly personal made strange.
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red apple is affectingly personal made strange A don't believe that either of your paraphrases is accurate. I would paraphrase it as 'very personally affecting images presented strangely'.
- red apple is affectingly personal made strange A don't believe that either of your paraphrases is accurate.
- I would paraphrase it as 'very personally affecting images presented strangely'.
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red appleis affectingly personal made strangeA don't believe that either of your paraphrases is accurate. I would paraphrase it as 'very personally affecting images presented strangely'.
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