Science and/or Art?

Art is not an externality. Abstractive visualisation is significant for gaining intuitions regarding many relational and topological spaces, networked systems, causal flows and (even, for elaborating) assertions of causality, intent and purpose in mind and/or nature.

It is not a matter of art OR science, which as a logical relationship approximates and resolves to some kind of affirmation, whichever side of the art/science coin you inspect. It is art AND science, and, notwithstanding the trundling wheels of defensively circling wagons that disciplinary boundaries have now so catastrophically normalised and self-validated, only some kind of generative(!) continuum and indefinitely-extensible adaptive communications bridge between them shall likely ever make sense, or progress.

There is an epistemological vacuum in play here. Art abbreviates and if nothing else, at least allows us to consider that the ways we represent reality are themselves also part of that reality.