This art installation by Jakub Hadrava has been floating (ha!) around the internet for a few months now. Apparently, this is a thesis project for Hadrava, a student at the University of West Bohemia (Google translation was a bit sketchy.) Hadrava hopes to raise awareness of the abandoned church and raise funds to repair it. Volunteers sat under layers of plaster fabric for 20 minutes to help create the silent figures. The ghostly figures are meant to "represent the spirits of the Sudeten Germans who went to the church to pray every Sunday." The church has been abandoned since the late 1960s.
The Church of St. George is located in the Czech village of Lukova and dates from the 14th century. Read an article here.
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