A Shiva lingam, a pillar that can be made out of myriad materials such as stone, clay, snow, rice, any substance, is an exception to anthropomorphic images found in Greek, Roman, and Hindu mythologies associated with gods and goddesses.
Indeed, throughout the Holmesian Canon our hero must deal with footprints on a wide variety of surfaces: clay soil, mud, snow, carpet, ashes, and blood.
Through Dec. 17 Suspending disbelief in the face of Paul McCarthy's amusingly hideous new bronzes, a viewer might imagine this narrative: A skilled commercial artist was working on a suite of clay sculptures illustrating Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
Long periods of dryness, clay soils and the presence of snow, limits the distribution of the species.
The men threw clay, rotten eggs, and stones packed in snow; the women were beaten and Pankhurst's ankle was severely bruised.
Diogenes the Cynic lived in a clay jar, masturbated on the street and embraced snow-covered statues.
These sediments are generally devoid of clay and sand and reveal no indication of snow-meltwater events.
Pottery molds are stacked on ceiling-high shelves, the sink is bathed with splattered clay and there's a fine coat of snow-like dust everywhere.
She went swimming every day, learned music appreciation and worked with clay, creating a purple hump-back caterpillar and a snow globe that Mrs. Hernandez displays proudly in a glass-front cabinet.
The Sacramento Valley has plenty of solar radiation, low humidity to thwart disease, heavy clay soil to hold water and pure-water irrigation from mountain snow runoff.
When Mr. Springer brought clay and sculpture supplies to her room, she set about forming a snow leopard, receiving some technical coaching.
