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The article discusses the diversity of the use of paperclay as a means of ceramic expression. According to the author, the term paperclay seems a contradiction because once a clay is fired, it becomes hard and permanent. Paperclay has come into the studio to be used as a means of artistic expression that enables work to be made which would be hard or impossible to create with other materials. The use of paperclay has been published by Rosette Gault and the making of it was showed in magazine articles written by several practitioners. The term paperclay cannot be used to describe any single material, but rather refers to the broad variety of clays available worldwide to makers.

The article discusses the advantages of using paperslip in ceramics. According to the author, a paperslip is a casting slip into which a certain amount of paper pulp has been mixed. It is used because of the great drying and gluing qualities it offers. It is similar to paperclay. The new paperslip should not be used immediately because the mixing action introduces air bubbles into the mix. It is recommended to let fresh paperslip rest overnight because the bubbles can eventually lead to undesirable pinholing.

The article focuses on the form and color techniques used by ceramist Annika Teder in creating clay art. Teder discovered the suitable qualities of a certain rice paper, which enabled printing from the wet clay slab. The discovery has opened several possibilities for Teder--images transferring from one material to another, from clay to paper, continuing their existence in quite another mode. In her solo exhibition, Teder exhibited laconic minimalistic installations made from clay and rice paper alongside her earlier works.

The article highlights the author's favorite open search tools for finding open arts and humanities content. Topics discussed include the JURN search tool, which discovers the full text of open journals in the arts and humanities; the sister tool of JURN called GRAFT, which searches the world's academic repositories, and the extremely poor semantic interpretation of queries resulting in subsequent slowing down of Paperity, a multidisciplinary aggregator of OA journals and papers.

The article lists books about architecture including "Cults, Territory and the Origins of the Greek City-State," "Polite Landscapes: Gardens and Society in Eighteenth Century England" and "Frank Lloyd Wright: The Phoenix Papers."