This past winter, the sea seemed to announce that the time for negotiating in ways we've known, over the consequences of ecocide caused by the effects of fossil fuel use on climate change, was over. During this winter's storms, I watched the waves claw back the land under my neighbor’s wharf, Then the rising sea demolished the pier from which he earned his living as a Maine fisherman. The impact of storm damage on coastal fisheries is enormous but another sector has also been impacted and may be less visible or elicit equal empathy, artists who work along the coast.