One of the places he’s documented is a factory that burned down more than a decade ago, which Mahoney says “was my favorite place on earth for a long time.” Driving me to this overgrown pit-like enclave, Mahoney leads as we creep through a layer of trees, broken glass crunching underfoot, into a clearing of charred-wood smokestacks. It’s quiet, but for the low sounds of a child yammering in the distance. We ascend a pile of corroded metal. It sort of feels like we’re in a cyber-punk world, until we spot the few homeless people living inside the flame-eaten building. We pass an idle army of shopping carts and Mahoney picks a rusted metal object from near an unhinged door. He’s also a metal sculptor — it’s likely this relic will become a piece of one of his works. “This city is like a quarry for me right now: I’m just chipping rocks out to use.”
“I really feel like what makes Brockton unique is that it can support a brand-new baseball team, a brand-new courthouse, slum neighborhoods, built-up suburban neighborhoods in the sort of Edward Scissorhands kind of style, really old almost-mansions, raw forest, farmland, places like this,” says Mahoney on the way back to his van. “I just think, ‘Where else am I going to have this opportunity?’”
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