{"id":921,"date":"2016-12-16T21:38:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T21:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aislinnthomas.ca\/\/?post_type=portfolio&p=921"},"modified":"2017-04-30T23:15:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T23:15:21","slug":"hi-vis-for-lo-vis","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/aislinnthomas.ca\/index.php\/portfolio\/hi-vis-for-lo-vis\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi Vis for Lo Vis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Performance, 2009 & 2014<\/p>\n

The first iteration of this project was titled\u00a0One Week of Safety<\/em>–a week-long performance during which I exclusively wore safety orange (at home, at school, at work, on a date, at the market…everywhere). \u00a0At the time the gesture didn’t hold a lot of meaning for me. Years later, after an injury that left me with a vision impairment, high visibility (aka “hi vis”) clothing took on new meaning (and practicality) for me. \u00a0Wearing safety orange as I went about my day felt like a meaningful response to\u00a0the experience of being both utterly\u00a0invisible and extremely conspicuous that came with my\u00a0disability. \u00a0It also served a very practical purpose: making sure that others could see me when I couldn’t necessarily see them.<\/p>\n

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