Cornell: Revisiting the Womb (Solomons)

Trudy felt sorry for Cornell. Suffering from near-permanent insomnia and deepening depression, he looked haggard and would talk to her without raising his eyes. She could see he was in mourning for his brother and was astonished by the ways he chose to console himself. “He was so strange,” she later remembered. “At night, he would turn on the oven to a very low temperature and put his whole upper body in the oven. It was a comfort thing, like climbing back into the womb.”
-" Goodbye, Robert, 1965." Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell by Deborah Solomons