I'm looking for someone to photograph as part of my Atlas Hotel project!

Please pass this on if you can think of anyone, thank you xx

I'm a big fan of Tommy Ton's photography. You can always find inspiring images on his website.

Meet the Mariachi brothers.

Finally, an all new website! My work has found a new home.

Check it out here: http://cynthiamerhej.com/

Doodling. 

Some images I am working on as part of a small commission. 

A doodle I made at school of illustrator Billie Muraben. 

If you are in London this week, pass by the Royal College of Art for our 

Work in Progress show, my work, and that of my super talented 

colleagues will be on display, it's definitely not one to miss!

It's on from 23-27 July from 10.30-5.30 pm daily 

at the RCA, Kensington 

And you can get a sneak peek via our facebook page: 

https://www.facebook.com/wip2013

I hope to see your friendly faces there!

Scenes from a fictional narrative I am currently working on at the RCA, 

which takes place in a resort known as the Atlas Hotel. 

An illustration for a brilliant article by author 

Emma Straub entitled "Late Bloomer"

Research drawings for my current personal project at the RCA.

As part of a commission I had to research a little about the Cristobal Balenciaga, 

a veritable master of the craft of couture. I spent an hour drooling over his sculptural 

clothes, luckily none of it dropped on the paper I was drawing on. 

You can see some beautiful pieces on the website of the Museo Cristobal Balenciaga. 

The lovely people at Agenda Culturel in Beirut decided to take a stab at asking me some 

questions, to which I had to respond through illustrations. I used the answers to create this 

short story, another installation for the My life in the movies series. The images featured 

are based on the seminal film Around the pink house by the Lebanese artists 

Joanna Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. 

The questions (translated from the original French) : 

What is the main theme in your illustrations?

What are you working on at the moment?

What are your future projects?

What is your wildest desire?

Who are your favorite artists?

How do you describe Lebanon?

It's never easy being the leading lady. 

There is nothing greater than good free music in this world, and Safar Barlik

 is a new artist from Beirut who just released his EP on bandcamp for you to grab. 

It's the first time I'm singing on a recorded track, and it's pretty scary but 

I hope I get to do it again because it's really fun! 

I really enjoyed listening to the tracks and watching the process behind them, 

Safar Barlik is a project that really captures the boredom and restlessness of 

Lebanese youth today. The lyrics and melodies are deceptively simple but they 

paint a picture of a whole generation of blasé Beirutis.  

So please be kind with us newbies when you give the album a listen,

 hope you enjoy it!

Because we all tend to forget sometimes.

A quick sketch of my good friend George M.

I have been taking photographs since I was fourteen, but never really featured any of it 

on this blog though it is an important part of my practice. That is my goal for this year, to 

find the common thread in all these different spheres I work in and love: 

film, photography, illustration, music and rope it all in.

The photographs above are of my close friend and frequent collaborator Timi Hayek. 

She recently graduated from Central Saint Martins in Fashion Print after presenting

 a stunning collection based on her love and natural instinct for colors. All the clothes are 

designed, handmade and modeled by Timi herself. We shot them at the printmaking 

studios at the Royal College of Art on a rainy London day. 

I love collaborating with fashion designers, and would love to continue to do so in the future. 

Having grown up around the craft I truly appreciate the work behind it and am constantly in awe 

of the power of garments to transform and express an identity. It is tough process to work with 

someone who has such a strong identity and vision behind their work, but also a joy to be 

involved in a project where the artist is so passionate and has put so much thought into every piece. 

It is a challenging process for both artists involved, but I think when it does work,

 the end product can end up stronger and will always be surprising. 

You can have a look at more of Timi's beautiful work on her blog, 

http://timihayek.blogspot.co.uk/

Continuing with my series "My Life in the Movies", I will be developing this project 

over the next couple of months. These images were done for the website Daftar Tajreebi, 

a platform for Middle Eastern creative culture which will launch soon! There will be an Arabic translation of these illustrations on the site. It was the first time I exclusively used Arabic 

and it was really interesting how it gave the story a whole new meaning.

Be sure to check them out when the site launches! 

More work with the lovely people behind Wilderness of Wish.

This time I got to use my photography and poetry, which I coupled together

 to create a moving GIF which is on the site's front page 

For some reason I was unable to upload the GIF unto here, so I put up on some 

screenshots instead, but head over the site to see it in action and while you are there 

check out what they do and what they have, it's a really interesting project!