Her work explores how "the notion of public decency is anachronistic" Her use of GIFs are gathered through the dark net which includes 4chan, pornfails, and Russian domains.
[13] For this video, Mills invited thirty different web-based artists per episode to create a single minute of footage about their contemporary practice.
[15] She has stated that this is due to the fact that internet art like hers that can be based on images that she finds from surfing on the web can encourage lengthy production.
[18] In 2024, Lorna Mills work is included in the group exhibition Sea Change at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.
[19] Mill's work portrays vulgar imagery that relates to contemporary living such as daily routines, stress and modern human behaviours.
Mill's says in her interview with CanadianArt, that she is drawn to "free internet filth, inter-species romance, masturbating penguins and people wanking with plastic dolphins".
Mira Dayal of Hyperallergic has described Mills' work as "a nauseating version of the internet or a frantic Tumblr feed...there is motion everywhere on the screen, and one piece tends to bleed into another.
[23][24] The first episode consisted of one-minute videos by 113 web-based artists who commonly work with 3D rendering, gifs, film remix, webcam performances, and websites to describe the cacophonous conditions of artmaking after the internet.
"[25] The resulting piece was collected and featured as part of the Whitney Museum's exhibition of video work, Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016.
[26] This work explores topics pertaining to "contemporary living, including subcultures, daily routines, stress, and modern human behaviors.
Mills was invited to mount a solo show of then-new gif works at the Marshall McLuhan Salon in the Canadian Embassy in Berlin for Transmediale 2015.
"The work of Lorna Mills forms patterns that defy progress and instead suspend the viewer in an endless retreat from the familiar.
Overall "Sheroes" crew consisted of multiple net.art artists "Echo, Rise, Repeat", is a piece that was exhibited at the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art.
In Mira Dayal's interview with Mills, she states how scrolling through her website, "LornaMillsImageDump", was like experiencing a warped and nauseating version of the internet or Tumblr feed.
[30] She also mentions this is due to how Mills uses animations and GIFs in her work to create a constant motion all over the screen and how one piece tends to bleed into another.
When searching the content, her choices tend to be "GIFs that are un-arty, made from real footage and, for the most part, disconnected from mainstream culture.
The cuts are rough and tend to leave edges of the original background attached giving the images a "grainy, pulsating aura".