![Seth Eastman, Distant View of Fort Snelling, 1847-49. Watercolor.](https://i0.wp.com/openrivers.lib.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/AV1991-85-30.jpg?fit=330%2C205&ssl=1)
Guest Editors’ Introduction to Issue Three
Water is a slippery subject: its visual and material properties spur intellectual inquiry and spiritual reverie; its fluctuating form repels categorization and confounds claims of ownership as it crosses property lines and national borders; and river and ocean currents facilitate commercial exchange along with environmental exploitation.