Tom Waits Bowler Hat: laptop sleeve
A black bowler hat caps Waits’s long face. Red ground and dark clothing make the pale face resemble a cutout.
- Listed options
- 13 or 15 Inch
- Delivery format
- physical product
From life to creative practice
İlker Ortaç’s relationship with music extends beyond listening: his biography also describes playing drums. His connection with punk and underground culture offers a context for reading this portrait within a practice that moves between sounds and faces.
From making to presentation
- Source drawing: Tom Waits Bowler Hat appears with its own image on İlker Ortaç’s artwork page.
- Format: the shop presents this product under the title Tom Waits Bowler Hat Laptop Sleeve, 13 or 15 Inch by İlker Ortaç.
- Presentation: compare the product preview with the drawing and open the Etsy listing for current options.
From the studio: a creative reconstruction
A first-person creative reconstruction drawing on the biography and artworks.
Before sitting down with a face, I often imagine a rhythm moving through it. I want the line to stumble occasionally, like an uneven drumbeat. When I make the face too tidy, it feels as if I have erased the unease that held it here.
Working around Tom Waits Bowler Hat, my attention returns to this detail: A black bowler hat caps Waits’s long face. Red ground and dark clothing make the pale face resemble a cutout. In the next passage, I imagine pulling back anything that weakens that encounter and leaving the areas holding its tension open for longer.
I imagine the image travelling from one table to another. The face on a sleeve becomes part of an everyday object that opens and closes; I weigh its placement for those brief encounters.
How the drawing works on this product
A laptop sleeve puts the drawing on a portable protective format. Screen diagonal alone does not establish a computer’s external dimensions. Check the listing’s size chart against the width, height and thickness of the actual device, including any case fitted to it.
Details stated by the listing
The specifications in this record come from the public shop listing title observed on 28 October 2026. Shop title: Tom Waits Bowler Hat Laptop Sleeve, 13 or 15 Inch by İlker Ortaç.
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