"For me, it is often that water shapes a concept directing the form and determining the fabric of the sculptures. It is often the smallest and most timeless of means by which water can be controlled that enchant and obsess me."

Fountains have long been integral to English landscape design. Offspring I sits well in a niche of the Camellia House, contributing to the atmosphere of calm. Offspring I is part of a series inspired by an Edward Weston photograph, which shows a section through a nautilus shell. For Pye, this image suggested a vertical water sculpture showing the rollwave phenomenon, where water flows down the surfaces of the mirror-polished stainless steel, the thin film of falling water being pulled by surface tension into rhythmical patterns.