Part of Ostovany's Numinous series, Runes 2, is a 16 x 20 oil painting on canvas. Ostovany describes his work as a "personal journey of exploration into the realm of the spiritual through the alchemy of paint, color, light, texture, and the poetics of space." Runes 2 is that sentiment made manifest.

Born in Iran in 1962, Yari Ostovany moved to the United States at the age of 16 and pursued his studies in Art first at the University of Nevada - Reno and then at the San Francisco Art institute where he received his MFA in 1995. Ostovany categorizes his work as Atmospheric Abstraction with one leg in Abstract Impressionism. His work is in the permanent collections of many institutions including the New Britain Museum of American Art (New Britain, Connecticut), Pasargad Bank Museum (Tehran, Iran), Chateau d'Orquevaux (Champagne-Ardenne, France), Permanent Collection of the University of Nevada - Reno Art Department. Ostovany now lives and creates in the East Bay