Rich Cutler: Burning Dress (from The White Lady – Y Ladi Wen), 2021

Edition of 10

Size: 63.5 x 47.6 cm (25 x 18.75 in)

Type: Digital C-type print on Fuji Archival Paper

The White Lady (Ladi Wen) is a wandering apparition peculiar to Wales and associated with Halloween, the festival of Winterfall – when darkness returns and the veil between the living and the dead thins. Little is written about her, but a rare Victorian book has this to say about an encounter: ‘opposite a pool on the road side she disappeared, in the form of a ball of fire, into the water’.

Rich Cutler is a photographic artist based in Brighton, UK. His practice is compelled by constructions of time and semiotics, fractures and commonalities between the historical and the present, and tensions between the sciences and the arts. He is a member of the MAP6 photography collective: map6.co.uk.