The Folly of The World (2021) combines found images from 1930’s National Geographic magazines with proverbs depicted in the Netherlandish Proverbs, a 1559 painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Bruegel's painting highlights the absurdity, wickedness, and foolishness of humans. It’s original title, The Blue Cloak or The Folly of the World, suggests Bruegel's intent was not just to illustrate proverbs, but to catalog human folly. This series recontextualizes human follies with images from a magazine known for its construction of ‘national identities’ in the 20th century as a metaphor to reflect on how these play out in the modern and contemporary socio-political context.