By Sharon Cohoon, Sunset senior garden writer

It demonstrates the power of repetition in any event.  Doesn't this row of heads look a lot more impressive than a single one would?  You sort of hate to think of people buying them one by one and breaking up the set.

This photo was shot at Fortini Home Garden Design in San Luis Obispo, and the personage depicted is King Jayavanmar VII, the king of the Khmer Empire during the late 12th century.  The statuary comes from Viducci's Garden, a German-based pottery company that recently began importing to the USA, but whose wares are made in Vietnam, which was part of the Khmer regime during King Jayavanmar's reign.