Three Stages of Stillness is a floor object made from smaller steel modules similar to those found in parquetry. On its surface it has three imprinted texts that describe certain spaces in an associative fashion combining words like “pipes” with chemical formulas like Fe2O3 (rust). The work’s main focus is this combination of elements derived from different language systems that, when grouped up with its allusion to parquetry, creates a story of three different spaces. The work’s reception may interpret non-existing small compartments of certain rooms or territories with restricted volumes through reading their descriptions. With the sequence of signifiers three spaces are interpreted. At the same time, these texts are encrypted and small; they produce a claustrophobic effect hidden in sizes, words and numbers. In the work Three Stages of Stillness a coded language is used to represent – to the viewer it offers only signs in place of a still image.