This altered cover transforms Iran. Interrupted into a physical excavation of interior space. By cutting through the book in a deep rectangular recess, the intervention creates a window into a dense, layered collage of rooms—walls, drapery, tiles, furniture—stacked and compressed into a single, impossible interior. The result is a spatial illusion that feels simultaneously intimate and disorienting, as if multiple homes have collapsed into one.

The book itself maps the relationship between domestic space, memory, and the traces of history held within Iranian interiors. The sculptural treatment mirrors this conceptual structure: each layer reads like a stratum of lived experience, revealing how private rooms become repositories of shifting eras, tastes, and identities. The deeper the cut, the further the viewer moves from the surface façade—an exterior wall—toward the hidden world behind it.

The collage brings together architectural fragments that gesture to the coexistence of tradition and modernity in the same frame, echoing the tension Minda documents. In this altered state, Iran. Interrupted becomes a condensed domestic landscape—an imagined interior built from the book’s own material memory. It invites the viewer to peer through the “wall” of the cover into a many-layered home, one that symbolizes both the privacy of Iranian domestic life and the complex, overlapping histories that shape it.