Mark Požlep (1981, Slovenia) is an intermedia artist, in his practice, he tends to go outside of the gallery space and get the public involved within the public space and share with them the experience of the unfamiliar. Creating surroundings and spaces which changes the position of the viewer to a participant. The material for the work usually derelict, waste materials, sometimes taken from different frameworks thus gaining new correlations and being placed in a new sphere. The work process is important, moreover, it's an adventure during which unexpected things can happen.

HOMELANDS began as an ambitious and utopian idea of building a "mountain" with local youth, while Mark Požlep was an artist-in-residence in the Centre for Digital Art in Holon. During November-January 2013-14 began an idea of forming this sculpture/mountain in the backyard of the old “Weizmann school” where the digital art center is now. The thought was that building the mountain will be a unifying factor and a symbol that will embody the idea of a united community and society that stands beyond the categories of gender, age or origin.

Homelands is a compound word that is made up of home and land. A mountain is defined as "a natural elevation of the earth surface rising more or less abruptly from the surrounding level and attaining an altitude which…is impressive or notable.” A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak without one standard or one model. The project showcases an idealistic sculpture of a mountain, four meters high, which is located in the backyard of the Israeli Centre for Digital Art.

The “material” for the construction of the mountain was taken from the ground nearby, meaning shoveled in a circle like digging and moving sand and soil from one side to another making a positive/negative of landforms. The mountain was built in 8 days using only one metal wheelbarrow, a few shovels and hacks and the work of children and youth that came to work, out of their free will and time with a group effort and belief in the idea. The challenge was to get the kids interested in the project, with the help of local community leaders we’ve prepared some presentation where we presented the project that we simply titled “Let’s build a mountain!" the presentation included a slide show of the tallest most beautiful mountains in the nature and introducing man-made mountains for inspiration as seen below: