Daisy Seilern is an award-winning Austrian artist whose practice spans fine art photography, sculpture, and contemporary mixed media. Known for her emotionally resonant visual language and deep commitment to material experimentation, Seilern’s work interrogates the boundaries between traditional beauty and the raw, often overlooked elements of the everyday. With a foundation in classical portraiture and formal training in fine art, she has developed a distinct aesthetic that merges precision with spontaneity — allowing movement, texture, and imperfection to become central to her visual storytelling. Over the years, Seilern’s artistic trajectory has evolved from studies of the human figure and stillness into complex, layered compositions that embrace improvisation and physicality. Her earlier series focused on themes of motion, containment, and the invisible structures that shape our physical and emotional realities. These explorations laid the groundwork for her current focus: the transformation of found and discarded materials into works of art that are at once strikingly beautiful and conceptually potent. Her latest body of work, Discarded Queen, represents a pivotal moment in her career — a bold thematic and material shift that reflects her growing interest in sustainability, circularity, and the politics of consumption. In this mixed-media series, Seilern combines photography with salvaged materials such as plastics, newspapers, textiles, and industrial remnants, which she meticulously reconfigures into sculptural garments. These wearable assemblages, created entirely from what society casts aside, are then worn by her models and photographed in stylized, regal poses. The resulting images — printed on Alu-Dibond and encased in deep plexiglass box frames — possess a striking three-dimensionality, blurring the line between image and object, surface and sculpture. Each figure in the series emerges from a carefully constructed environment of cast-off materials, standing proud and poised amid mounds of human excess. In transforming the remnants of overconsumption into symbols of strength, dignity, and grace, Seilern questions the hierarchies of value and beauty that dominate contemporary culture. Discarded Queen is not only an aesthetic project but also a philosophical one. It invites viewers to reconsider their relationship to material waste, fashion, femininity, and environmental responsibility. By elevating what is routinely overlooked, Seilern encourages a shift in perception — from disposability to potential, from consumption to reinvention. Her work suggests that resilience is not merely survival but a creative force, one capable of generating elegance and power from unlikely origins. Throughout her career, Seilern has been preoccupied with dualities — between stillness and motion, structure and chaos, the controlled and the organic. With Discarded Queen, she brings this exploration into a new socio-environmental context, layering meaning through both form and process. The women she photographs are not passive subjects; they are archetypes of transformation, draped in the detritus of modern life and reimagined as icons of regenerative beauty. Seilern’s work has been exhibited internationally and recognized for its innovation, aesthetic rigor, and emotional depth. Beyond the gallery space, her practice continues to evolve as a platform for dialogue around sustainability, gender, and the power of material culture. Whether through photography, sculpture, or installation, her art challenges us to look closer — at what we consume, what we discard, and what we deem worthy of attention.