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Column: Making art — and still making the mortgage — at a Hollywood auto body shop

LOS ANGELES — The first thing I noticed about the art piece near the corner of Fountain and Western avenues south of Hollywood was the color. It was a collage of painted planks representing every shade of Southern California weather, cloudy white and misty blue next to rainy-day slate gray and the deep cerulean of midsummer. It reminded me of the abstract color blocking of the Dutch painter ...
Michael Yeghish owns an auto body shop, shown here on Saturday, March 4, 2023, in Los Angeles, California, with a unique fence/art piece created by him.

LOS ANGELES — The first thing I noticed about the art piece near the corner of Fountain and Western avenues south of Hollywood was the color.

It was a collage of painted planks representing every shade of Southern California weather, cloudy white and misty blue next to rainy-day slate gray and the deep cerulean of midsummer. It reminded me of the abstract color blocking of the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian.

The second thing I noticed about the mosaic was that it served as a fence for a small auto body shop called EndZon Automotive.

I decided I wanted to meet the auto body mechanic

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