Fuzzy Logic

Art in the cafe...

Laurel Statz


"The Spectator"


December 2025



Laurel Statz is a painter and Madison area native. Her work, while figurative, is influenced by abstraction and minimalism. The paintings often have a quick and instinctual nature, capturing just what’s needed. While she often times herself to eliminate extra details and over-precision, she has ventured into more detailed works as well. Laurel does not attach narrative to her pieces. Rather, she thinks of them like a journaling process for her scatter-brained psyche. The figures in the pieces are meant to be processing tools for the artist and the viewer. She hopes that seeing these figures helps the...
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Ruth Comfort


"The Metaphysical Affect"


January 2026



A diverse collection of mixed mediums, extensively encapsulating my heart and soul concerning the dreams of the human condition. ARTISAN RUTH COMFORT My given name is Ruth Comfort. Named after the amazing artist Louis Comfort Tiffany. I hail from a very long line of artisans and musicians. Even dating back to the great German philosopher...
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Friday, December 19, 2003

In 1995 Biff Blumfumgagne, Tom Hamer, and R. Virgil Ellis formed Fuzzy Logic as a small-scale performance group to exploit Biff and Tom's arcane and uncanny musical resources, in relation to performance poetry and also to explore fuzzy thinking in art.Biff brings violin, therolin, electric mandolin and other devices that may not end with "lin". Tom plays the drumset, MIDI electronics, tuned gongs, various toys and inventions. R. Virgil (Ron) Ellis performs his poetry into a microphone.Ron has long been interested in the relationship, or lack thereof, between science and Buddhism. The idea for a performance group called Fuzzy Logic comes from reading Bart Kosko's book, Fuzzy Thinking: the New Science of Fuzzy Logic. He has written The Tenting Cantos, a series of 100 poems which explore mental states and meditation. Tom and Ron are currently producing an archive of performances of all 100 Cantos culled from studio and live recordings with Dangerous Odds, The Chamber Rock Ensemble, Fuzzy Logic and including new studio work.

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