On my daily commute to the city center of Cairo via the 6th of October Bridge, one day I spotted an elderly woman spreading her white laundry on the roof of a house next to the bridge. The scene revealed to me how motorways have invaded people's homes, usurped their intimate space, and altered their environment with visual, sound, and atmospheric pollution.
I tried to awaken awareness of this situation by imagining myself and my friends in this position, trying to get closer virtually to what this life might be like.
In this project, I have combined photographs taken from inside me and my friends' homes with images of the bridges just outside, blending two realities into one frame. Some images are digitally merged to reflect the overwhelming presence of the bridges in daily domestic life. Others are single, unaltered photographs taken from the opposite perspective showing the homes from the bridge itself, to emphasize the extreme proximity.
By doing so, I invite the viewer to imagine what it means to live in such conditions, where the boundaries between private life and public infrastructure have nearly disappeared.
