Delft blue crockery will often depict windmills in deserted romantic landscapes. It is an image that dates back to a time when the windmills were still in use and building was prohibited in a circle of 100 metres around the mills. A restriction that is no longer in place, as Tom Boekema discovered when he photographed ten windmills in the villages around Eindhoven. He portrayed them from all compass points at a distance of exactly 100 metres. He then projected these spatial images onto a series of plates Windmill Biotope in Delft Blue.The middle plate shows the old-fashioned, romantic windmill; the four plates surrounding it reveal the situation as it actually is. The ten sets of plates reveal the contrast with the traditional image of the windmill.