In Honey, I Blew Up My Tits, Lorna Mills tears up found footage at the pixel level, reassembling them into a moving image work staged as a website. She reconstructs the material into jarring tableaus rooted in her crude, tongue-in-cheek humor, stripping it of its original meaning. Sourced from the web’s most disreputable corners, pornographic clips are transformed into GIFs, looped and layered into a rhythmic motion until the fragments shed their function and become a stage for pure absurdity.
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Lorna Mills is a Canadian artist whose career stretches back to the early days of the networked image. Beginning with analog photography and film, she shifted her attention to the animated GIF, a format she has elevated into dense, meticulous collages presented as restrained installations. Alongside her studio practice, she has organized ambitious collaborative projects that bring together artists from around the world, and her work has appeared in numerous surveys of contemporary digital art.