A haunting bronze sculpture by Folkert de Jong, *Act of Despair - Bowler Hat #2* presents a distorted human figure wearing a classic bowler hat, merging dark humor with a sense of existential unease. The work's weighty metallic form contrasts with its almost theatrical, tragicomic character, evoking themes of identity, performance, and desperation. De Jong transforms the familiar symbol of the bowler hat into an unsettling emblem of bourgeois conformity and inner collapse.