#1189: POV

I am (re)searching interactions. In the summer of 2025, I spent six days with 12 educators in and along Lake Erie, building connections with waters, lands, creatures, and each other. In my greed for data, I chose to do video-based interaction analysis, that slippery tool that makes us feel like we can make sense of others’ point-of-view. I asked educators to wear chest-mounted GoPro Max cameras to capture 360° video. The output lets us spin and spin, wresting point-of-view away from the educators and into researchers’ eyes and hands. This experimental video, backed by the rhythms of water and words, reconfigures images taken during a macroinvertebrate data collection activity educators conducted in a small tributary to the Lake. It is an invitation to wonder about the point-of-view of creatures we ask to teach us about water health, and to embrace the unresolved messiness of wading and listening without expecting answers.