Tristan Buttigieg is a singer-songwriter, musician, and poet who treats art as an open question rather than a fixed answer. Originally from New York City, his work draws from both lived experience and inward reflection. Inspired by the raw honesty of early- to late-20th-century poetic and musical movements, his work moves between city concrete and subconscious current, between what is seen and what is felt. 

With seven collaborative albums released between 2018 and 2021, Tristan has long explored rhythm and narrative through music. His first published poetry collection, Have Nine Lives, carried that same unrestrained spirit, grounding abstract thought in the everyday pulse of human life. Pearlesque continues this trajectory, expanding his work into a space where language and visual form converge.

He resides in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.