Jacob's eyes are hidden by dark glasses. Bees float in front of his face, with blue in the background. He's in the placeless place, under the sky, or on a studio set, standing in front of a giant blue backdrop... a color made to disappear, and so used by image technologists to yank subjects from the living earth, and place them against any imaginary background, here to Mars to Rome to your intestines. Or just turn where you are into someplace else, exactly the same but totally different.     When I was among my Mesopotamian bees, I always thought about how things had changed.