In Routine #2, we see the artist working on a painting in her studio while her infant daughter sits on a stepladder next to her. Since giving birth to her daughter in 2018, motherhood has become an important theme in Fadilah’s work, especially the eternal struggle to balance motherhood with a career. The painting is captured from the side, with Fadilah’s back to the viewer. Her pose seems casual and slightly uncertain as she paints a straight yellow line down the canvas. Interestingly, such lines only appear within Fadilah’s paintings-within-paintings; the painting she is making in Routine #2 is unlike the more realistic style of her overall practice. The bright yellow line suggests the stringent nature of domestic routine and monotony, and the struggle to balance these responsibilities with her more expressive and emotive nature as an artist.