Three geese nests for the artist Kutlug Ataman, to be built in his ranch-atelier in Erzincan, Turkey. The structures provide nesting place for over 500 geese during the breeding season, while defining the geese’ territory, and giving shelter from the wind through movements of soil. The three nests absolve an utilitarian function, but are also follies within a vast garden for birds and people, a place where the lines between ornament and function, utilitarian and hedonositic, bird and human are redesigned. Each nest is used as a large “tool” to sculpt the ground that surrounds it. From afar, they appear as coloured, two dimensional strokes, from close up, they define a wind protected, slightly excavated open air room, for geese to graze. Over time, the accumulation of nitrogen from the guano, and the compressed soil will mark their territory in a more permanent way than the built structure.