To ask art to serve is not wrong. But when urgency and scarcity guide the invitation, they often ask more than they support. Art is called to bear what it did not cause, to perform what it cannot hold. Fields like therapy, care, education need duration, not events. Art can reflect, extend, accompany. It fractures when used as substitute.

Inclusion and impact may sound generous. But the terms reveal another logic: short timelines, shallow support, symbolic duties. Artists adjust not from belief, but survival. Practices bend. Words shift. Convictions soften to fit the frame. Institutions perform commitment while responsibility is moved elsewhere.

The harm is not always visible. But the confusion is. It becomes hard to know where duty lives, or who is left to carry what was promised.