I remember the first time I saw “Figure with Meat” in high school. I wasn’t shocked by the grotesque, nightmarish image of this zombie-like pope sitting between two bisected halves of a cow, but instead, I was awed, eager to know more about the painting and to understand how Francis Bacon could create something that […] The post “Picturing: A conversation with Jory Mickelson” – curated by Esteban Rodríguez appeared first on Tupelo Quarterly.| Tupelo Quarterly