Glowing-text Monolith before Figure

A tall rectangular monolith of dense glowing text stands in a vertical 9:16 frame before a lone figure, conveying quiet awe and scale from a close vertical crop. The glyphs wrap the stone face in flowing, semi-legible letterforms that read as texture rather than literal signage, carved and backlit with a warm gold glow that contrasts with cool shadowed planes. The plaza is night air with faint mist that softens distant edges and lifts subtle halos from the gold and amber tones. Wet paving mirrors the monolith in fragmented reflections and leads the eye toward the person, reinforcing verticality and depth. The nearest foreground resolves crisply on the monolith surface and the figure's silhouette, while mid and far planes fall into gentle soft focus for layered depth. Light sculpts edges with warm highlights and cool fill on shadowed faces, balancing amber gold and deep navy mood. The viewpoint is slightly low and tight within the 9:16 crop to emphasize towering height, with clean negative vertical space above and a grounded foreground strip. A single low bench and a shallow puddle serve as props to anchor scale and story. The scene reads as a cinematic mixed-media render with painterly grain and subtle bloom on highlights to amplify the luminous text.