I find this image to be multilayered - I think of the image of the bees in a hive being cells of one body with the mind of the queen. Here the hive comes out of the head of the statue. I also think of the stereotype which I have long ago discarded but which was imbedded in my mind growing up in the 1950's in the US of the "communist state" as being full of powerless worker bees. I had no time, nor inclination to explore the political realities of modern Laos, but I did think about it as I took this image.