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About the Artist & the Site

About the Name - Why Winged Turtle?

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Sea turtles underwater are amazingly elegant beings. They glide through the water as if flying, their "wings" spread. The video to the left (flash required) shows a young sea turtle in Hawai'i demonstrating this underwater flight. Turtles really do fly. 

Video of a "flying" green sea turtle - no sound

   

About Winged Turtle and the Artist

Winged Turtle began as a collection of art and designs celebrating that fabulous and fascinating creature, the sea turtle. It soon expanded feature art and photography in other, mostly nature-related, themes, as well as a variety of designs on subjects which are close to my heart, such as education, reading, and progressive politics.

As a companion to Winged Turtle, I maintain a site of Jewish artwork and designs at Yosef's Dreams (yosefdreams.com). I work extensively with my Jewish Renewal community, Chadeish Yameinu, as their webmaster, as well as layout artist for their quarterly newsletter and designer of their logo.

In addition, I have a site of Jewish-themed writing--essays and poetry--at Eish Zarah (eishzarah.com).

I live in Santa Cruz, CA, with my rabbit, Motek ("Sweetie" in Hebrew.)
Contact information


email:
michaelyosef@wingedturtle.com

mail:
422 1/2 Escalona Drive
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

no phone


Inspirations

On the inspirations page you can read more about what inspired the artwork on this site. Read about encounters with the honu, green sea turtles of Hawai'i, Little One the little cat with the big personality, the teacher who inspires me, and more. Or just browse the galleries and the shop.


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