LIGHTS WE LOST: Butler County artist memorializes lives of Covid-19 victims

Artists know their works can be windows to comprehend things that defy our usual efforts to understand them. As the 20th-century American painter Dorothea Tanning said, “Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity.” When Darryl Berry saw the death toll from Covid-19 mounting in his community, he was compelled to go to his workshop and begin creating. The ever-increasing national numbers almost seemed like an abstraction, and he knew there were many in his community of…