"Lingering Spirit" Painting

I am a self-taught artist of many mediums. I work in a variety of styles which result from dreams in which I see a piece in progress or already completed, and then I create it. I like to say that I have multiple personalities, and they are ALL artists. Art, and writing are the main focus of my life. I often see expression in inanimate objects, and I prefer to paint those stories. I don't often paint people, as they can speak for themselves. Other times, color and form insist on expressing themselves on their own. At those times, I get out of the way completely and just propel the medium. In recent years I have worked more and more in salvaged materials that would have otherwise been discarded or ended up in a landfill: scraps of hardware I have rescued or dismantled from discarded things, lumber and plywood from construction and cabinet making, and odd things I have found washed up on the beaches where I live. People who know my passion for this have begun to bring me strange things rather than throwing them away, saying "what can you do with THIS?"