Artist Mipa Shin creates custom ceramic planters in the garage studio behind her Cypress Park home. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Mipa Shin sits on a low metal stool next to her pottery wheel ...

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Mipa Shin sits on a low metal stool next to her pottery wheel and prepares to talk houseplants. Smiling, pointing to the planters that line the shelves of her single-car-garage-turned-ceramics-studio, ...