In The Blood - Matthew W. Kennelly

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“IN THE BLOOD, Kennelly's first long-term project beginning in 2017, is a visual and written story of healing by proxy of farming, taking its audience through a multidimensional narrative of intimacy, education, and faith. Kennelly introduces us to the life of Andrew Albert while encouraging his audience to journey to parts unknown - both within themselves and their surroundings. In The Blood will educate about the lifestyle of farming as well as the internal personal impact that farming can have on one's self .

In The Blood creates for its audience humble vignettes of both beauty and darkness, joy and pain, faith and doubt, in backdrops that are deeply familiar to more than 2.6 million people in our country."

“When so many of us work only on the path that is paved smooth beneath our bare feet, farmers continue on when that path turns to thorns. They just keep walking, barefoot and bleeding, through the thickets in the dark ‘cause there’s a dirtiness to courage like there’s blisters to digging the grave for the one you love.”