how do you think about what you're doing right now? Do you take yourself to be producing a work of art? Do you take yourself to be engaging in scientific theorizing or experiment of some kind? What methods are you applying? What standards are you holding yourself to?

Well, right now I'm writing some rather routine software I am paid to write, and I try to do a decent job, but it is by no means art or science, though I do learn a thing or two now and then. When I was doing actual research (calculations and simulations in General Relativity), it was no art, either, but it did produce some non-negligible results, though nothing earth-shuttering. Unfortunately, it was not quite at the level of an experimentally falsifiable model, which would be a fair standard for me.