ETERNAL SEA, ETERNAL SKY

2012
Live Performance

For one month Fornieles performed at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas within an installation of 200,000 one penny coins scattered on the floor. Fornieles sat in a small wooden boat and collected written notes of hope and fear from people visiting the casino. After one month the artist gambled half of the money (her artist's fee) on the roulette table, which she lost in one go and buried the other half in the desert. The wooden boat full of written notes was then burned on the same site in the desert.