Still Life

So in art classes I've taken in the past we've had to do a "still life" piece. However, I had never done such a project using photography because you have to do much more than just take a picture of something that isn't doing anything...not unless you offer complementary sleep aids with it. So I took a picture of a dragon statue that I had in my room but I tried to position both it and the light that illuminated it in a way that made it look as big as any self respecting dragon would be.