Hello, I'm Dina Belenko.

My work revolves around the emotional resonance of objects​,​ the way they absorb time​,​ memory​,​ and human presence. Still life​,​ often perceived as static​,​ becomes a medium for storytelling​,​ where the arrangement of ordinary things reveals the invisible traces of human presence. I am drawn to the aesthetics of the mundane​,​ to the poetry hidden in chipped coffee cups​,​ crumpled paper​,​ and the familiar clutter of daily life. I am particularly interested in the way familiar objects transform under the weight of displacement. After relocating from my hometown to Los Angeles​,​ I began working with the personal artifacts I carried with me as a means of understanding loss and adaptation. Still life​,​ to me​,​ is not just about arrangement — it is about storytelling. Each object carries its own weight of existence​,​ shaped by the hands that held it​,​ the places it has been​,​ and the silence it inhabits. My work seeks to reveal these unseen narratives​,​ capturing the moment where the ordinary becomes extraordinary.