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New York.: JMC & GHB Editions (John McWhinnie & Glenn Horowitz Books)., 2008. Plain white wrappers, housed in heavy grey graphite sarcophagus with sliding lid. Top of lid with a deep machine-engineered engraving of the title text message.. Book (20.8 x 15.3 cm); case (29.8 x 24 x 5 cm).. pp. (48). Artist’s book, published on the occasion of Adam McEwen’s exhibition entitled “Chicken or beef?”, held at the Glenn Horowitz Gallery in New York, September 2008. In the show McEwen exhibited his text message works. The artist had a standard Nokia phone, then the most common phone in Europe, and got somebody to design a font that exactly matched that of his phone. They are supposedly all real texts, texted to McEwen or texted to friends of his who forwarded them to him. This artist’s book reproduces twenty-four of these Nokia text messages. For the exhibition, each enlarged text message was encased in graphite frames. McEwen has been making sculptures out of graphite since 2007. He selects unassuming, almost banal objects which he then transforms into solid graphite, such as an ATM machine. For this book, McEwen places his artist’s book within a heavy graphite sarcophagus. The case, made of solid graphite, is hinged on the top left corner, allowing the lid to rotate open. The actual book is housed within a recess in the case, with its white covers becoming marked and smeared with grey as the graphite lid closes across, presumably by design. The text messages are printed in pale grey. Published in an edition of only 10 copies, numbered, signed and dated by McEwen in the book.