TRISTAN SNYDER

Through my life I have been interested in drawing. I grew up on a farm in Bartlett, Texas among the corn fields, cattle ranches, combines, and John Deere tractors. However, finally moving to, what I considered the ‘urban' city of Georgetown, Texas, the eclectic neighborhoods and 19th century Americana captured my pen and paper. In that city I spent most of my life. Through primary and secondary school I was average in both my grades and my athletic ability, but I continued to draw every minute I had the chance... When I was 10 years old, I met a wrinkled man at church that looked about 100 years old, but walked and talked with a young man's ambition. George Cape, a retired Dallas Architect in the 80's offered to help me draw, and for eight years every Saturday we went out and found everything in the city we could. He encouraged me to apply to the architecture schools around the state and see what stuck, and in 2014 I was accepted to Texas Tech University in the West Texas city of..