Painting Recovery investigates how pain recovery and shifts in the mind-body connection can be articulated through gestural painting. Using an autoethnographic method, the study examines an intuitive self-directed recovery process developed after the failure of conventional pain treatments. It identifies agency, duration, and unconscious processing as key factors, situating them within medical, neuroscientific, psychological, and Zen frameworks. By merging exegesis and art practice, the research transforms subjective experience into an objective creative process, where embodied mark-making operates as both method and expression of recovery. This practice demonstrates how gestural art can mediate healing, fostering mind-body harmony through constrained, intuitive creation.
