At some point, living in Amsterdam had me frustrated, I was mad at the racial politics in the Netherlands; for example, people having ignorant notions about blackface. I’d come across it in a very subtle way, especially in the streets. What I noticed was that blackface is seen as a distortion by mainly only Dutch black people. In a way, my installation was misappropriating that racist gaze. It was a reaction to many things, and I could say that there was a childishness to the work as I was exploring. Adapted from The Mail and Guardian, 2020, June
Three examples of prepositional phrases in the paragraph above.
1.at some point
2.at racial politics
3.come across it
4.by mainly
5.in a way
6.living in
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