Impossible Wooden Chicago Knot City

Create a macro photograph depicting an impossible tabletop sculpture: a closed, continuous, and self-intersecting topological manifold handcrafted from light-colored, smooth architectural model wood.{argument name="urban center" default="Chicago"} The city center is uniformly mapped across the entire surface of the knot, squeezing a clearly visible urban skyline—towers, dense blocks, grid-like streets, bridges, railroads, highways, and infrastructure—directly from the wooden surface. This creates a paradoxical geometry with no true upward direction: buildings grow outward, extend inward into the hollow rings, stretch laterally along the ribbon-like structure, and invert beneath the arches; roads and rail corridors encircle the manifold and endlessly loop back to themselves. Emphasis is placed on Chicago-like landmarks, including clusters of dark-wood skyscrapers with antenna towers reminiscent of Willis Tower and John Hancock Center, dense downtown high-rises, river bridge trusses, and elevated rail lines integrated into the knot. The sculpture should form several interlocking toroidal rings with open hollow slits, intricate internal shadows, and dense micro-architectural details on every visible surface. Use original gallery lighting, creating sharp, intersecting shadows, paired with a neutral gray gallery background and a clean white square base to ensure it reflects the proportions of a handcrafted tabletop architectural model. The material should be a single-color light-colored linden or birch, with fine laser-cut textures, tiny windowpane grids, delicate etched roads, and layered wood strips. It should be shot from a three-quarter frontal perspective, with shallow macro depth of field, high realism, clear details, and no people in the frame.