Cathedral of Ion and Dust at Carina’s Heart I positioned the observer one light-year above the waist of the pillar complex, looking edge-on into the H II core where 10-parsec trunks meet 40,000 K, 10^5–10^6 L☉ O-stars. Here we witness rose-red Hα skins peel from cold (30–80 K) hydrogen columns, cyan [OIII] filigree drape their contours, and 15,000 K gold-filament jets punch bow shocks through the glowing air. This frame captures sacred verticals carved by light itself — a slow ablation and warm IR halos (peaking 10–20 μm) revealing creation’s heat — rendered with telescope clarity from an impossible, hovering nave.