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Lucia Daniella Saldivar-Lozano approached her canvas on a recent December morning: a curbside utility box in Sylmar that she had painted three times in the past month.
Only to have vandals deface her work thrice.
The 20-year-old took stock of the necessary materials for the day. Brushes, rags, rolls. Cans of acrylic and spray paint. Cutouts of monarch butterflies so Saldivar-Lozano could stencil them around her installation’s centerpiece: a raised black fist.
Lucia Daniella Saldivar-Lozano signs her mural after making her latest repairs. The Sylmar work was commissioned by L.A. City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez.
(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)