Chicago presents an architectural field bending under its own reflection. The grid becomes both physical and spectral, intersected by arcs of light that curve space inward. Familiar forms—stone facades, signage, bridges—dissolve into layered illusions of verticality and expansion. This is a vision of the city not as monument, but as atmosphere: a geometry of energy, echo, and recursion. The figure at the center is less subject than witness, standing before an urban apparition that stretches beyond scale.