Calgary Chess Statue... Odd Position

All I know is that the caption read that the photo was taken at "The Ohio State University, Central Ohio Technical College." 

Here is another picture I found.  It looks like there is a rook on c7 instead of a pawn and he is holding a knight in his hand.  Blacks King is in check by whies queen.  It would be nice to know what the original position of the knight in his hand was.

Haha that's inconsistent with the touch move rule, isn't it... unless of course he has to use the knight to block the check?

Do you want to do the updated position, mhooner? Or shall I. The question is, where could the black knight have been and what available options are there for him?

c3 looks like an okay square for him to be heading to... blocks the check and is protected by a rook and a pawn?

I'm pretty sure it's on the NE corner of 8th and 8th SW.

I think the man who made the statues was John Seward Johnson Jr. He is the grandson of one of the founders of Johnson & Johnson. He was a sculptor too. He even made sculptures of people doing day-to-day activities.

Check out this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seward_Johnson_II

There is a statue of a man playing chess in my town as well.  I don't recall if it's another of the same or not.  I'll take a look in the next couple days and, perhaps, post some pictures.  If I recall, ours is at least as poorly(badly, even?) taken care of as yours, Rael.

He's holding a black knight in hand...  Black to move.   The knight would've been on f4, since his other knight can't have been fighting a lone battle on that side of the map.  It could easily provide support with one move like d3 or g2.  That or it's already there... and the e1 knight is already supported.  It would also explain why white didn't take the open f-file yet.  He might've picked it up pre-maturely, thinking that it was either his next move or the one piece which could block the queen.  Alternatively, he could use his rook, or just move his king.  The white's h-rook might push for a pawn-capture, if it's not already defended by the ellusive black knight.

Or better yet, that knight could be at e3.  It would prevent a rook taking the f-file, as well as poising a king-rook fork if the d1 rook captured the e1 knight.  But I do speculate that the queen did not come from b1, which is the only place it could have came from in order to perform a check.  I must really insist that white had a piece blocking the queen, such as the rook moving from d5 to d1, in order to perform said check.  (This makes more sense if the ellusive knight was on e3, since that white rook is threatened on d5).  Now black is holding the knight because he wants to move it from e3 to c4... thereby ruining his plans for a fork.

Edit:  After posting the static images in the post below... I'm even more convinced that the ellusive knight is on e3.  It must've been moved from g2, hence losing the protection on the black h-pawn AND leaving the other knight en prise in order to threaten a rook on d5 as well as a check on the king.

Proposition one:

Proposition two:

I finally remembered to go take a couple snaps of our statue here in Medford.

 I chose pieces for Black that would equalize the material and left them on their starting squares(other than the king).  There's no mystery about our statue's position, as no matter what piecesBlack has, he will mate in 3, once White moves out of check.  I do like the urgency, as White would have a mate in 1 were he not in check.