Cafe Haiku

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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Wednesday, April 27, 2005

tired of tv?
shut it off and step on down
to cafe haiku

from seven to nine
on april twenty seventh
that's on wednesday

yes, you. really. come.
we want you to. its real fun.
that's real. really real.

at the mother fool's
where you can listen or
say something instead.

kristin sage will host
with db petersen's help
with odd sung music

and all the people
will have a chance to orate
and share their haikus

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