At the Deep Creek Ranch Outpost of the Global Displacement Network, our latest project highlights the channels of water through a sea of mail [1]. Our projects are carefully planned and documented in order to provide an entire library of resource material for future generations. Our interests lie in the tension between homogenization and diversity, time and place, people and landscape and/or any combination of these. For the Deep Creek Experimental Water Exchange Program, bottles of water from the snow-melt stream on our premises were mailed (in accordance to United States Postal Service regulations) to various predetermined locations throughout the lower 48 states. Included in the packaging were requests for water from those locations and postage for its return. Space was provided for the participants to note their usage of the Deep Creek water and the origin of the exchange water. When the exchange water is received, it is stored in our tempered ice shed until it can be evaluated for clarity, wetness, shape-holding ability, size, smell and pourability. After the testing procedures are completed, the specimens will be permanently cataloged in the vast expanses of our library system.

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