Kate Hunt’s “New Perspectives” will christen Diehl Gallery’s new space for Fall Arts. Two distinctly different shows, a sculptor driven by the details of texture and shape and a painter informed by a mission to celebrate the positive actions of a world alive are paired up to discover wonder in primary materials and illumination in a common flower.

Hunt is a Montana native who has recently moved to Mexico. Her new locations have informed new directions in her work.

Hunt has rediscovered a new relationship with paper, her long-time medium of choice that she sculpts and patterns into sacred pieces that reshape what’s been left over: bailing twine and archives of the Jackson Hole News&Guide shaped around steel and sealed with epoxy and encaustic. The result of her repurposing is fiercely dramatic.

“More and more places are not publishing print paper anymore and the paper quality is also changing,” Hunt said. The artist said after moving to Mexico her art form changed entirely after having to seek out new paper sources.

“It’s a more expensive commodity right now and though I had access to heavier, really high-quality paper, it was causing my work to get blocky and it definitely influences the way the work comes out,” she said.

Hunt said her work is driven by what if.

“I just build the work and the work visually speaks to me. I think what if is a big question ... that’s where all my work comes from is just looking at it having that conversation asking what if you know, the materials have a language to them,” she said.