Wooden Knot Impossible City Sculpture

Macro-lens studio photograph of a tabletop sculpture: a closed, continuous, self-intersecting impossible-city manifold shaped like a thick wooden knot or tangled torus, crafted entirely from pale, smooth architectural modeling wood. Uniformly map the urban center of [Chicago] across every curved surface of the manifold, with recognizable skyscrapers, dense downtown blocks, gridded streets, raised train rails, and bridge infrastructure physically extruded directly from the wood. Emphasize the spatial paradox where there is no true 'up': buildings, street grids, and rail lines protrude inward into hollow gaps, outward from outer rims, and sideways along twisting ribbons, while roads continuously loop back onto themselves. The miniature sculpture rests on a minimalist white gallery pedestal, displaying subtle wood grain, sharp laser-cut channels, clean beveled edges, and precise micro-architectural craft. Captured in a three-quarter view showing the central voids and overlapping bands, lit by warm gallery lighting that casts complex, sharp intersecting shadows through the apertures against a neutral taupe background with shallow depth of field. Elegant, mathematical, surreal architectural museum photography.