on how to make a statue fly...

i was cleaning out the archives over the weekend, and found these two photos which i picked up at a flea ages ago. the first shows a pair of photographers with a table of statues, setting up a shot. you can see one guy is attaching a post to the back of a statue so it will hang a good distance off the black cloth background. the second photo is the result... i'm guessing they were working on a kid's book.