>critical thinking?

>i have been in this crisis about what i am doing for some time and really discovering what i am interested in is a philosophy , which through thinking about this is allowing me to understand why things are as they are. what irks me about contemporary practice is a scientific methodology to the work or rather a scientific outcome from a methodology of research , i think that art is much better than this and not really about proving something but uncovering the hidden mysteries , which by there own nature will still be mysterious once uncovered(for references see Bruce nauman, bill viola and franz west off the top of my head).

i am not setting up a them and us and find that my thinking can take on this form.

( a work of visual art that seems to of been arrived at through a process of logical methods with an outcome which talks about the way it was conceived not through material or processes but through a conceptual framework. this conceptual frame though now seems to me to reek of one of necessity for the artist, to allow governmental funding or theoretical placement within a body of knowledge, rather than the artists wanton enjoyment of the ideas at stake)

but maybe i am questioning the value of works which simple visualise a theory or obvious point of view which are then held up to be important. so there is a way for art to be more subtle and powerful than i feel it is currently. This frustration could be my own difficulties in coming to terms with some of the elements and interests that are contained within my own practice.