Pew Under a Pillar, Baptized in Ultraviolet. I positioned the observer 1.5 light-years from Carina’s central buttress-pillars, framing a 3-parsec molecular column whose 20 K skin is being flayed by a knot of 45,000 K newborn O-type stars (up to ~500,000 L☉ each). Here we witness a 10,000 K ionization front corrugating into scallops, blue‑white shadows raking a weathered oak pew pressed to the pillar, while frost filaments sublimate into a halo that stream-lines under the photoevaporative flow — an impossible, intimate foreground against cathedral-scale creation.