ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Del Bey

SONG: Olive Tree (Bright-Side Mix) FROM i/o

Video info

Rooted in the tension between connection and survival, Del’s creative work explores the pull between grounding in community and the constant movement required to endure. Through digital collage, video, with symbolic imagery, she reflects on nature’s resilience and the search for peace and purpose.

Del documented corresponding times and dates on a stationary travel clock over three years - a meditation on stillness and documenting the growth of forty-year-old ficus trees' roots. Organic forms that, like olive trees, serve as living metaphors for memory, endurance, and renewal. They echo her own path as an artist, teacher, and caregiver, shaped by experiences influenced by her African-American, Jamaican, Cherokee, and European heritage.

Her layered process traverses Photoshop, Premiere Pro, iMovie, AI tools, and iPhone, reshaping and reanimating imagery until rhythm and movement emerge. The result is a body of work that holds both struggle and hope, offering space for renewal, presence, and connection.

Song info:

Olive Tree is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's album i/o, released on 1 December 2023. This is the Bright-Side Mix, by Mark 'Spike' Stent.

Words and music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Peter Gabriel.

Published by Real World Music Ltd. / Sony Music Publishing.

“This song is one of those taken from this next brain project that I am working on. We are entering a time in which reading each other’s thoughts will become a normal part of our lives. In this story our hero puts on the brain scanning helmet, that turns thoughts into pictures, and then sees all the deep connections he has with the natural world and in particular to one olive tree.

In many ways, we are part of everything and we probably have the means to connect and communicate with everything, yet we often shut it off. We only want to see and listen to the things that seem important and relevant to us and shut out the noise of everything else. But probably, hidden in that noise, there are all sorts of things that can help us realise our place in this future world and help us remember we are still apes who need a healthy natural world to survive.”

-pg