How Carly Mandel Blows Up Self Care

Carly Mandel’s 2018 solo exhibition at Veronica Gallery in Seattle emulated a blood drive for marine arthropods. The show was an homage to the horseshoe crab, a creature whose blood, at some $60,000 per gallon, is essential to testing for toxins in numerous injectable medicines—including most vaccines. The species began to flourish before dinosaurs did, and arguably, they’ve saved us from extinction more than once.
In the gallery, Mandel displayed three lumpy blue ceramic fount