From her first local solo exhibit two years ago, South Korean-born paper artist Cheong-ah Hwang displayed a facility with the inanimate. She presented impeccably detailed, miniature odes to restored Victorians and classics-filled bookshelves in papers of varying colors and weights, tooled to do her bidding.

In last year's erotica show at A Muse Gallery, Hwang turned to the body, offering a depiction of male genitalia as memorable for its impression of frailty as its thoroughly unique use of material. She continues to branch out of her stylistic origins and explore the full possibilities of her medium in her latest show, Occupied.

Inspired by people she's seen on the street, Hwang let the body become her central theme. Updo recalls the formal perfection of Hwang's previous work while also employing the playfulness of technique that's come with her take on human imperfection. It's a headshot from behind, sliced paper forming a voluminous bouffant.

For Liar, she left out the scissors and instead covered a real body in a sheet of wet, white paper, molding it to create a vertical impression of a comfortably bedded form. She goes off the walls for Loop Dude but keeps the piece connected to the space's other flat planes by presenting a man as if he were an endless loop of tape in the middle of a cycle (the head is just above the floor, the legs are coming out of the ceiling).

In the titular piece, Occupied, she wrapped a figure in a vellum curtain, a black frame and its own thoughts. Back facing the viewer, a waxy haze preventing full view, her subject seems to be implying, "Go away, I'm thinking."

"It's a show about how impressions are not just physical," Hwang explained. She succeeds in illustrating how each body has its own way of relating to others and its surroundings, capturing whatever it is (An attitude? The soul?) that animates us beyond basic physical and biochemical impulses.