Existential Snacks

Part political satire, part spiritual wake-up call, “Existential Snacks” is a conceptual art project that uses candy and snack foods as sculptural materials to address urgent, global, and existential issues ranging from threats to democracy, climate change, racism, and AI. The series blends humor, activism, and spirituality, combining pop-cultural absurdity with moral and spiritual gravity to explore how society trivializes profound human crises.

“Robbi Firestone’s Cheeto Trump portraits are brilliant contemporary extensions of the longstanding tradition of Satirical Portraiture. Innovative in her use of materials Firestone’s paintings/collages reveal and sense of humor, are clever and reveal a substantial insight into subject which makes this series of portraits so successful.”

-Louis Grachos, Executive Director, SITE Santa Fe