Vance Houston

Origami is undoubtedly the most universally consistent and accepted art form in all the cosmos.

A mental high/reward exists when you not only create something but also teach yourself how to do it. My work and designs truly have infinite possibilities which are only limited by my skill. It seems that the more my work evolves the more I fall in love with everything about Origami.
Hello and thank you for looking at some of my works. My name is Vance Houston and I am a 25 year old Sculptural Origami Artist from Reno, NV. Almost all of my work consists of my self created interlocking base fold and none of these works require any adhesives to sculpt. Over the past 6 years I have been focused on developing and improving my skill but the time has now come to divert my attention into trying to share my art. All of these sculptures are technically Origami but I refer to my work as Paper Engineering.

Origami vs. Paper Engineering
Origami is the art of paper folding. Once the paper is folded you have a finished product. To me the process of my art is at odds with this common perception of traditional Origami. In Paper Engineering folding thousands of sheets of paper is just the beginning. The real challenge and time exists in physically assembling these pieces together. Through a process of weaving the individual sheets become suspended off of one another. This results in organic designs based upon uniform geometry created through a process of symmetry and repetition. It truly is hands on mathematics. .
Creating these sculptures begins with a formula on how to mathematically approach a more simple geometric form and allow it to expand in complexity through the consistent application of math that is unrelated to what the sculpture looks like and directly related to a process of symmetry, rotation, repetition, and mirrored images.

In a sense I know how I am going to build a specific design based not upon what I want or think the sculpture should look like but rather by using mathematical principles related to how the geometry varies. Due to the nature of this mathematical approach to these sculptures the final product is more of a result and surprise than a preconceived geometric form. This gives you the blueprint for creating sculptures that have a concrete and yet visually unknown solution. This allows my work to continually evolve, making my sculptures more complex creates an exponentially increasing amount of potential designs.

sculpture, geometry, math, origami, paper, design