Henry Muttoo (MBE), a wise arts-man of the Caribbean, in August said as he accepted a Guyana Cultural Association of New York Lifetime Achievement Award, “Give the people not what they want but what they should want.” Everything he had said leading up to this statement dissipated from my mental registry. And for a while, my thoughts lingered there: Give the people what they should want! Are artists in Guyana giving Guyanese what they should want? Have I given the people what they should want through my own art practice? Do Guyanese have expectations of artists? I wished our arts-people could be unanimously motivated by a similar sentiment as was uttered by our recently honoured arts-man.