I like to take a genre and then do something with it--fill it in, so to speak; fill it to overflowing, I guess (as I have done with "magic wands"); maybe filling it with stuff that doesn't necessarily belong in that particular shell.
The "Coat of Arms" or family crest is a unique genre in art (something like the commercial logos we see everywhere today) with a few straightforward elements to be set up and filled in. That's where the idea for this piece started.
I haven't done much conscious thinking about the parts of this composition and how they relate--or I've done some thinking and not let it develop too far--which is intellectual laziness or a canny strategy for letting "inspiration" kick in.
The motto says, CONVIVIUM MAGNUM MULTI MORSUS, which I'm pretty proud of because I think the Latin I have come up with is correct (as far as I can tell with my 12th grade Latin--thanks, Mrs. Rens) and also because the Latin meaning is clear on the face of it, but could also be taken in another interesting way (again I say this based on my 12th grade Latin, so CAVEAT EMPTOR).
I'm thinking this piece might have gotten out of hand. I'm not sure how good it is. You be the judge.
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