


Adam McEwen takes text messages (sent to him, or forwarded to him by friends), draws them onto paper, and frames them. Rendered in the (once) familiar style of a Nokia cell phone screen and font, McEwen monumentalizes the everyday to entertaining ends.

Marilyn Duker and Roger Slade, Anorexia and Bulimia: How to Help (2nd edn., Buckingham: Open University Press, 2003), 154, emphasis added.