The round house is universal in architecture. From the African Kikuyu mud huts and the Tata Samba, the Navajo Octangular Hogan, the Pueblo kivas and even the US coastal lighthouses, the round structure has always represented a sacred or safe place. These habitat structures have only one function: they give the viewer a sense of something safe for themselves.

Michael Lancaster studied pottery by apprenticeship and began his career in 1976. He makes sculptural forms on a pottery wheel and fires them in a Raku kiln, where they undergo immense change which is reflected in their surface. He works together with his wife, sculptor Barbara Harnack.