Francis Alys successfully merges together land art and democratic art through his work When Faith Moves Mountains. With this work, Alys gathered five hundred volunteers to come together and physically move a huge sand dune several inches over the course of a day. Along with being a unique land art exercise, the piece contains meaning within the political context of Peru that the exercise took place. This work took place during a time of political turmoil in Peru with the last months of the Fujimori dictatorship and the emerging resistance within the people of Lima. The work reflects a collective act and a powerful allegory for the ability of human will to do a mythical act,. There is no visible product through the collective action, as the sand dune moved a few inches, but rather the myth of what happened and the myth of what a group of people can do through collective action.