Flare (2023-present) is an ongoing photographic series of self-portraits and domestic interior photographs, documenting the private, intimate moments of flare-up. Intermittently bed and housebound since 2019, Jamila originally developed an artistic practice as a response to a worsening in her lifelong disability that meant she could no longer work in arts organisations. Adapting her practice to exist from bed, she has since had further health deteriorations that have made making largely inaccessible to her. Flare is a series taken in stolen moments directly from her sick bed. The title references both the focus of disability flare-ups and the moment that occurs when an analogue photo gets overexposed, leaving a light flare across the image. Taken in and around sickness, in darkened rooms, the images regularly take on a distorted and blurred quality, correlating with the unpredictability of both film and health. It reveals the oft-unseen, hidden moments of flare-up, which exist outside of societal norms of respectability; going weeks without washing, unable to leave bed, cook, socialise or work. She shares these moments in an attempt to release some of the shame surrounding the experience.

Flare, (2023-present) is an ongoing photographic series of self-portraits and domestic interior photographs, documenting the private, intimate moments of flare-up. Intermittently bed and housebound since 2019, Jamila originally developed an artistic practice as a response to a worsening in her lifelong disability that meant she could no longer work in arts organisations. Adapting her practice to exist from bed, she has since had further health deteriorations that have made making largely inaccessible to her. Flare is a series taken in stolen moments directly from her sick bed. The title references both the focus of disability flare-ups and the moment that occurs when an analogue photo gets overexposed, leaving a light flare across the image. Taken in and around sickness, in darkened rooms, the images regularly take on a distorted and blurred quality, correlating with the unpredictability of both film and health. It reveals the oft- unseen, hidden moments of flare-up, which exist outside of societal norms of respectability; going weeks without washing, unable to leave bed, cook, socialise or work. She shares these moments in an attempt to release some of the shame surrounding the experience.