ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Costas Papageorgiou

SONG: Wallflower FROM Peter Gabriel 4

Video info:

With this video I attempted to reinterpret the song ‘Wallflower’ visually through the body of a woman. Hands, hair, voices striking the inner walls. Small, measured, ritualistic steps. Cries echo against the walls, carrying both hope and despair, alternating with turbulent formations that create geometries spilling into the watery landscapes of dreams and escape. This woman becomes an abstract frame and a symbol of the global spiritual and existential crisis, inside a stone “box” that resembles the set of an ancient tragedy.

“Hold on. And I will do what I can do” – through the olive trees of the Mediterranean land, the sea views and the rocky, barren landscapes. ‘Wallflower’ is no longer just a song; it is a poem written on the walls of a prison whether real or mental.

The images I recorded with my cameras – digital and analog – were all taken by me in the region of Attica, Greece. They are photographs and videos I shot and worked on specifically for this project, and which I tried through a visual art approach to combine and enrich in the editing process in order to express my own artistic interpretation of this great song by my beloved Peter Gabriel.

Song info:

Wallflower is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's fourth solo album, released in September 1982.

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

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

‘Wallflower is a song that had been written with Amnesty International in mind and prisoners of conscious and people being tortured. It’s always been a popular song with fans.’ - pg