Cathedral Edge: Off-Center Birth in Carina’s Pillars I positioned the observer a few light-weeks from an ionization front, looking obliquely along a buttressed molecular trunk with the main mass deliberately displaced left to honor an off-center drift. Here we witness 30–50 K molecular gas surrendering to ~9000 K H II along a scalloped rim, a 4000 K protostar launching ~200 km/s jets that dent a PAH-bright skin, and intensity-dependent caustics where aligned grains act like a paradox prism. This frame captures a warm, vast cavity rendered in JWST-like infrared mapping: PAHs as copper/amber, shocks leaning aquamarine, and dust-rimmed silhouettes revealing feedback sculpting at parsec scales.