{"id":7525,"date":"2026-10-23T00:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525"},"modified":"2026-10-23T00:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:27:19","slug":"from-impermanent-to-permanent-ola-rondiak-on-motanka-sculptures-and-ukrainian-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFrom Impermanent to Permanent\u201d: Ola Rondiak on Motanka Sculptures and Ukrainian Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Scott Douglas Jacobsen<br \/>\nEditor (Canada-Ukraine), Times Asian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Ola Rondiak <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a Ukrainian-American contemporary artist, sculptor, and former psychotherapist whose work explores identity, memory, displacement, and Ukrainian cultural resilience. Raised in the United States by Ukrainian immigrant parents, she later relocated to Kyiv, where her artistic practice deepened through engagement with Ukraine\u2019s political upheavals and historical trauma. Known for her large-scale motanka sculptures, collage, and mixed-media works, Rondiak combines personal family history, women\u2019s experiences, and national memory into visually layered narratives exhibited internationally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Scott Douglas Jacobsen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> interviews Ola Rondiak about her ART KYIV exhibition, focusing on large-scale motanka sculptures as symbols of Ukrainian resilience, cultural memory, and identity. Rondiak explains how stronger materials and outdoor scale reflect permanence, while ancient doll forms connect personal family history with national trauma. She discusses viewers\u2019 interpretations, cross-cultural talismanic parallels, Russian reactions, her children\u2019s creativity, and her own musical theatre past in Ukraine, including playing Rizzo in Grease, and family artistic life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Scott Douglas Jacobsen:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What about now, stands out, for ART KYIV exhibition?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Ola Rondiak:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Other things in the letters stood out too. She became very religious, which my mother said she had not known about growing up. But I think being in prison changed her. It is like people say about the army: there is no soldier who does not believe in a higher being. I suppose that is what happens in those situations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jacobsen:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In the United States, the number of prisoners who are atheists is around one percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rondiak:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Right. When you are faced with those situations, maybe you believe in something higher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jacobsen:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Current exhibition. You have big motankas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rondiak:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> As I experimented with the motankas over the years, moving from plaster, I began thinking about how to get them outdoors. Intuitively, they started becoming larger and made from stronger materials. In retrospect, I realized it reflected this growing feeling of resilience. It was not that I was trying to show Ukrainians as resilient; it was that the energy itself was coming into the sculptures. They grew larger and stronger, moving from impermanent to permanent, from soft to harder materials, something meant to last.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are important in my journey because they tie together so much of what I have experienced: the past and the present, my own life and Ukraine\u2019s history, through this contemporary version of an ancient Ukrainian rag doll. That is what I love about them as a contemporary artist: they let me show a piece of history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I show my art around the world, people still do not always know the history of Ukraine. I grew up almost as an ambassador for Ukraine. My name was Ola in America, so people would ask, \u201cWhat is Ola?\u201d I would say, \u201cUkrainian,\u201d and they would say, \u201cOh, you are Russian.\u201d So from the time I could talk, I was explaining that Ukraine is not Russia. This work is a continuation of that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every time I have an exhibition, I can talk about how deep Ukrainian history and culture are: that the Ukrainian language has deep historical roots, and that Kyivan Rus existed long before Moscow became powerful. People are often shocked to learn those facts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jacobsen:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yes. Belarus, Russia, and modern Ukraine come out of some ancient superstates, essentially.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rondiak:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yes. Moving here connected me to my roots much more quickly and strongly. It accelerated that connection, helping me feel my ancestral spirit and meet family members here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jacobsen:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Were there any surprising interpretations from the current exhibition? People come by, give a comment, and you think, \u201cI had not thought about it that way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rondiak:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Very often, things come out of people that surprise me, and I love that. I love when people bring their own interpretations to my work. I learn from that as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jacobsen:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What are some things you learned?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rondiak:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is almost like people put into words what I am expressing visually, because I do not necessarily think about it verbally myself. Even here at the art fair, Katya told me someone commented that the wooden and metal motankas were interesting because the wood spoke to nature, while the metal represented the hardness and permanence of Ukraine. I love hearing things like that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes reactions are more difficult. I have been exhibiting at the Miami Art Fair for maybe seven or eight years now, and sometimes Russians become angry at my work because they believe something very different about Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At other times, people from completely different cultures identify with the work in unexpected ways. When I was exhibiting my motanka sculptures in Harlem in New York, a woman from Africa told me the sculptures reminded her of talismans from her own culture. They had similar dolls. I think if you go back far enough, there are many crossovers between cultures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jacobsen:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yes. Norse culture, for example, had influence on Ukraine historically as well. There are a lot of cultural crossovers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rondiak:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Exactly. In her culture, the doll was connected more to fertility, whereas here it functioned more as a talisman, but there were still similarities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jacobsen:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ancient supernatural systems are broad categories. The logic is basically, \u201cThis object does this for me. X does Y.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rondiak:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Right. I enjoy hearing people\u2019s interpretations and observations. That openness is one of the beautiful things about art. People can interpret it for themselves and discover what it means to them personally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jacobsen:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Are any of your children artists?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rondiak:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yes, in their own ways. Maya is a musician, singer, songwriter, and dancer, so she expresses herself artistically through performance and music. But if you handed her a canvas and paint, she would also be a natural.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jacobsen:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So canvas was not threatening for her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rondiak:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> No, she would just go through canvases because she grew up surrounded by them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes on the way to school she would say, \u201cMama, I love that painting.\u201d Then she would come home later and ask, \u201cWait, where is the painting I loved?\u201d And I would say, \u201cOh, I have already painted over it five times.\u201d She would start crying and hiding the paintings she liked in her room so I would not paint over them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The children grew up surrounded by art. My husband, even though he is an engineer and businessman, loves music. There was always music in the house. He writes as well. My son is also a music producer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jacobsen:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You also did musical theatre in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rondiak:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I did. I played Rizzo in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grease<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jacobsen: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you very much for the opportunity and your time, Ola.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott Douglas Jacobsen<\/strong> is a Canadian <span class=\"google-anno-t\">journalist<\/span> and publisher who serves as Times Asian\u2019s Editor for Canada and Ukraine Affairs and writes on international affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor (Canada-Ukraine), Times Asian Ola Rondiak is a Ukrainian-American contemporary artist, sculptor, and former psychotherapist whose work explores identity, memory, displacement, and Ukrainian cultural resilience. Raised in the United States by Ukrainian immigrant parents, she later relocated to Kyiv, where her artistic practice deepened through engagement with Ukraine\u2019s political upheavals and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[78,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-highlights"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201cFrom Impermanent to Permanent\u201d: Ola Rondiak on Motanka Sculptures and Ukrainian Resilience - Times Asian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cFrom Impermanent to Permanent\u201d: Ola Rondiak on Motanka Sculptures and Ukrainian Resilience - Times Asian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor (Canada-Ukraine), Times Asian Ola Rondiak is a Ukrainian-American contemporary artist, sculptor, and former psychotherapist whose work explores identity, memory, displacement, and Ukrainian cultural resilience. Raised in the United States by Ukrainian immigrant parents, she later relocated to Kyiv, where her artistic practice deepened through engagement with Ukraine\u2019s political upheavals and [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Times Asian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-10-22T18:27:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/From-Impermanent-to-Permanent-Ola-Rondiak-on-Motanka-Sculptures-and-Ukrainian-Resilience-e1792693624488.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"563\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Times Asian\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Times Asian\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/?p=7525#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/?p=7525\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Times Asian\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/be0bfd16d0a661d87d306a8f434642d5\"},\"headline\":\"\u201cFrom Impermanent to Permanent\u201d: Ola Rondiak on Motanka Sculptures and Ukrainian Resilience\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-10-22T18:27:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/?p=7525\"},\"wordCount\":1137,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/?p=7525#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/From-Impermanent-to-Permanent-Ola-Rondiak-on-Motanka-Sculptures-and-Ukrainian-Resilience-e1792693624488.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Entertainment\",\"Highlights\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/?p=7525#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/?p=7525\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/?p=7525\",\"name\":\"\u201cFrom Impermanent to Permanent\u201d: Ola Rondiak on Motanka Sculptures and Ukrainian Resilience - Times Asian\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/?p=7525#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/?p=7525#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/From-Impermanent-to-Permanent-Ola-Rondiak-on-Motanka-Sculptures-and-Ukrainian-Resilience-e1792693624488.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-10-22T18:27:19+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/be0bfd16d0a661d87d306a8f434642d5\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/?p=7525#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/?p=7525\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/?p=7525#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/From-Impermanent-to-Permanent-Ola-Rondiak-on-Motanka-Sculptures-and-Ukrainian-Resilience-e1792693624488.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/From-Impermanent-to-Permanent-Ola-Rondiak-on-Motanka-Sculptures-and-Ukrainian-Resilience-e1792693624488.png\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":563},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/?p=7525#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"\u201cFrom Impermanent to Permanent\u201d: Ola Rondiak on Motanka Sculptures and Ukrainian Resilience\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Times Asian\",\"description\":\"news on diplomatic issues\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/be0bfd16d0a661d87d306a8f434642d5\",\"name\":\"Times Asian\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/14b226fdbfdce801f4b7b28a7dcca6c38fc59e4c4ddb2ac635d806b664f2ce50?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/14b226fdbfdce801f4b7b28a7dcca6c38fc59e4c4ddb2ac635d806b664f2ce50?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/14b226fdbfdce801f4b7b28a7dcca6c38fc59e4c4ddb2ac635d806b664f2ce50?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Times Asian\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/timesasian.com\\\/?author=4\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\u201cFrom Impermanent to Permanent\u201d: Ola Rondiak on Motanka Sculptures and Ukrainian Resilience - Times Asian","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\u201cFrom Impermanent to Permanent\u201d: Ola Rondiak on Motanka Sculptures and Ukrainian Resilience - Times Asian","og_description":"By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor (Canada-Ukraine), Times Asian Ola Rondiak is a Ukrainian-American contemporary artist, sculptor, and former psychotherapist whose work explores identity, memory, displacement, and Ukrainian cultural resilience. Raised in the United States by Ukrainian immigrant parents, she later relocated to Kyiv, where her artistic practice deepened through engagement with Ukraine\u2019s political upheavals and [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525","og_site_name":"Times Asian","article_published_time":"2026-10-22T18:27:19+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":563,"url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/From-Impermanent-to-Permanent-Ola-Rondiak-on-Motanka-Sculptures-and-Ukrainian-Resilience-e1792693624488.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Times Asian","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Times Asian","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525"},"author":{"name":"Times Asian","@id":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/#\/schema\/person\/be0bfd16d0a661d87d306a8f434642d5"},"headline":"\u201cFrom Impermanent to Permanent\u201d: Ola Rondiak on Motanka Sculptures and Ukrainian Resilience","datePublished":"2026-10-22T18:27:19+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525"},"wordCount":1137,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/From-Impermanent-to-Permanent-Ola-Rondiak-on-Motanka-Sculptures-and-Ukrainian-Resilience-e1792693624488.png","articleSection":["Entertainment","Highlights"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525","url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525","name":"\u201cFrom Impermanent to Permanent\u201d: Ola Rondiak on Motanka Sculptures and Ukrainian Resilience - Times Asian","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/From-Impermanent-to-Permanent-Ola-Rondiak-on-Motanka-Sculptures-and-Ukrainian-Resilience-e1792693624488.png","datePublished":"2026-10-22T18:27:19+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/#\/schema\/person\/be0bfd16d0a661d87d306a8f434642d5"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/From-Impermanent-to-Permanent-Ola-Rondiak-on-Motanka-Sculptures-and-Ukrainian-Resilience-e1792693624488.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/From-Impermanent-to-Permanent-Ola-Rondiak-on-Motanka-Sculptures-and-Ukrainian-Resilience-e1792693624488.png","width":1000,"height":563},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=7525#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"\u201cFrom Impermanent to Permanent\u201d: Ola Rondiak on Motanka Sculptures and Ukrainian Resilience"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/","name":"Times Asian","description":"news on diplomatic issues","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/#\/schema\/person\/be0bfd16d0a661d87d306a8f434642d5","name":"Times Asian","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/14b226fdbfdce801f4b7b28a7dcca6c38fc59e4c4ddb2ac635d806b664f2ce50?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/14b226fdbfdce801f4b7b28a7dcca6c38fc59e4c4ddb2ac635d806b664f2ce50?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/14b226fdbfdce801f4b7b28a7dcca6c38fc59e4c4ddb2ac635d806b664f2ce50?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Times Asian"},"url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?author=4"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/From-Impermanent-to-Permanent-Ola-Rondiak-on-Motanka-Sculptures-and-Ukrainian-Resilience-e1792693624488.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7528,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7525\/revisions\/7528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}