The ubiquity of smart-phones, selfies or self-portraitures, has become the rage in recording real-time, to be posted on social media such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat. In this 2014 painting aptly titled, Selfie, the lady with her pet orange parrot perched on her left shoulder, seems drawn to something on the right. The window looked closed, maybe to prevent the bird from flying away. Her blouse is in a serrated black-and-white diamond-shaped design.  Selfies are deemed narcissistic as daily pictorial diaries, but after the birth of her daughter, Aira, in June 2018, she relied on the "wefies" to translate into several autobiographical paintings of her daughter "growing up" in her studio. When Segaris Art Centre gave Fadilah Karim an early survey exhibition called A Decade, Fadilah Karim, 2010-2020, many art observers were fascinated by the sustained ascension of this “upstart” seniman muda. Fadilah had a two-month mentorship under Amron Omar in 2010. She graduated with a Masters in Fine Art at UiTM (University Mara Institute of Technology) in 2013, a BFA (2010) and a diploma (2008). She also boasted of a clutch of competition awards: Portrait of the Governor of Malacca; Tanjung Heritage; and Shah Alam Open Show (Incentive Award), and had solos, Vague and Secret Lies, and was featured in Art Stage Singapore 2015. Her recent solo exhibition, Kala Mekar, was held at Rissim Contemporary in 2024.