In Newtown Creek , the camera takes on the perspective of a piece of debris floating in the murky waters of New York City’s Newtown Creek, the site of a catastrophic oil spill in which upwards of 17 million gallons of oil leaked from nearby petroleum storage facilities over several decades. In the subaqueous world of the Newtown Creek, nature exists in a state of surrender. Fish and plant life have been largely been replaced by human artifacts. Billowing clouds of industrial detritus, plastic bags and discarded snack food containers are the creek's new underwater inhabitants Less