my name is Bill feelin I'm an artist in
area 9 19 and I live in raleigh north
carolina I've been drawing my whole life
pretty much I mean it's an integral part
of my practice but it was never in the
forefront as it has been in the last
couple of years it was kind of a
accidental kind of thing that I started
showing my drawing so a lot of times
it's problem solving in the drawing
transferring you know the ideas in my
head to a two-dimensional place I just
I've always been drawing since I could
pick up a pencil it's just a way to
communicate for me I go to the studio
every day i start withdrawing then i go
on to whatever tasks at hand it was
really a personal thing in a private
language that i kind of had with myself
to kind of visualize ideas and so I
didn't really want to share those with
people too much although they seem
really simple at the surface there's a
lot of complexity to each and every
drawing I mean they're so minimal and
they're so stripped down and bear
they're almost like raw nerves in the
way for me sometimes it's a little hard
for me to let that out it's almost like
oh I'm going to show you this big wart i
have on my nose so you know it's good
and it's not good a pic home it's not
just a pickle I mean for some people it
is it's never if there's like layers and
layers and layers I also used to work at
Mount Olive College which is like right
next to the pickle factory I became
obsessed with like pickles and like kind
of phallic imagery and then Joe Orton
and Kenneth Halliwell wrote this book
called Lord cucumber and so it's like
these all these different levels of like
how deep you do you want to go but I
know that other people are going to see
that they're going to just see a pickle