In the Pacific Northwestern playground of Microsoft genius, where brainiacs build Jimmy
Hendrix museums and spend billions of dollars to solve crises in Africa, it is hardly
surprising to find a Nuclear Physicist who takes a year’s sabbatical to paint. As Chancellor
Emeritus of the University of Washington’s newest campus in Bothell, Dr. Warren Buck has
implemented innovative educational programs in the classroom, with a campus that hosts
the largest freshwater wetlands restoration in the Northwest. Along with his wife Cate, he
also built (and resides in) the state’s first permitted cob home, made of mud, straw, and
clay (see article here.)
Dr. Buck is now bringing theoretical physics out of the academic environment and onto
canvas in a collection of acrylic paintings titled “the Omega Series.”
“Recently, I returned to acrylic painting in a big way, giving my imagination a fertile
playground. The Omega Series epitomizes that imagination coupled with my knowledge
of physics. I consider the human body to be an electrical battery in the mille volt range --
we are antennas; tiny in power output but antennas nontheless. While there is no
evidence that our commmunications include these electromagnetic field interactions, it is
tempting to make the assumption that somehow we do; and that those waves reach far
beyond our local positions. Of course, trying to physically measure such waves is
extremely difficult as the background electromagnetic fields from the sun, cosmic rays,
radios, etc., mask the signal strength. Nonetheless, it is gratifying to represent this effect
via colorful paint on canvas. Hence the Omega Series, where bodies flow into auras and
auras flow into other auras and other bodies, symbolizing our complex, multifaceted
connectivity with each other.”
c. 2006 Warren Buck
c. 2006 Warren Buck
