hm, its your opinion, your artwork. but i personally feel the typography is leading my eye way too much towards it. that is why i said to get rid of it
unless it is going to have some real typography complimenting the piece, its just there as informative as to the title of the piece and/or it's artists. So as this text has no (artistic) typographic intent, and since it isn't interrupting anything, it stays. Unless i decide to have no text which i am still deliberating.
but the text is a no go, get rid of it!
nice work guys
thanks though