Tim Gardner's "Two Men on a Bus, Moving Through the Landscape" captures an intimate moment of urban transit rendered in soft pastel tones across two adjoined sheets of prepared paper. The work's composition emphasizes the relationship between the two figures and the dynamic landscape flowing past them, a subject matter characteristic of Gardner's interest in contemporary life and human connection. By working in pastel on gessoed paper mounted to canvas, Gardner employs a technique that allows for both the delicate luminosity of the medium and the structural stability needed for his large scale compositions.