Digitally created set of playing cards.
Lee chose to draw attention to Anorexia Nervosa, a serious topic, by using a trivial medium thereby emphasising its shock value. He produced his own set of 'Top Trumps' playing cards. In the real world these are commercially manufactured around the themes of cars, ships and airplanes; the aim is to trump your opponent with a card that has a higher value. Cards about cars for example would give numerical values for speed, petrol consumption, safety etc. Each of lee's cards features an anorexic model and he rates their highest weight, lowest weight, best binge, suicide attempts, number of psychoses and life expectancy. The back of each card shows the title, with a toilet bowl (vomiting) representing the letter 'O', diet pills and the anorexia food pyramid diagram.
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