She used stainless steel, graphite, charcoal and oils on board other than etching and aquatint in the current show. She constructed vertiginous spirals and rectangles with steel spikes in the middle of a circular form depicting moon and earth respectively according to the theme of the artwork. She created rich textures by using stainless steel on painted surfaces with graphite and gold. These two colours gold and black represented past happiness and current hopelessness.
Laila Rahman works in both the disciplines of painting and printmaking as she has been trained in both form of art. She combined these two ways of seeing and working in her art practice. She has been a student at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design, London; the Slade School of Fine Art, London and the National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore. The titles of her artworks revealed the theme more clearly such as "Baatin e Aqs", "Darya e Aqs", "Mahtaab say Mulaqaatain", "Shuru Yahaan Say", "Meem=Mein", "Do Raastay", "Aik Dil", "Majma" and "Junoon".
"The irony of this phrase becomes more significant for me as I witness our world crumble. Faith in belief systems, faith in fact in anything at all, is systematically being dismantled and rejected. We are believers, sadly, in nothing, except perhaps our personal entitlement. It was against this backdrop that I began to work on the current series of paintings and prints," she said in a statement.
Almost all her works in circular form contain text in both Urdu and Pashto scripts having influences of both the languages as she lived in NWFP now KPK during her childhood. She symbolically used "Meem" letter in her works for herself "Meem=Mein", for "Meem Mashreq" and "Meem Maghrib", for "Meem Mahtaab" and "Meem Majma". She very carefully used the letter "Meem" and expressed her inner feelings and experiences in her works in layers and through symbols such as she used pomegranate to represent manipulation and seduction.