SHED Projects presents Loomer, an exhibition by Noelle Africh, as the inaugural presentation of the One Piece Viewing series. The exhibition title, Loomer, recognizes an ominous presence. What looms is unclear. The looming perpetrator in question, IT, is the subject of the work on view. IT remains anonymous, indistinct, uncanny, and mutable. ITs presence poses a threat. Where threats are explicit, paranoia is superfluous. In the realm of the implicit, paranoia finds a home. Africh’s attempt to picture IT is born out of a paranoid reaction to an environment and culture that displays violent tendencies towards its most vulnerable. IT outruns parameters of reference, holding power in illegibility. While painting offers fleeting glimpses, IT continues to escape the eye. Africh’s paintings document the search for what to watch and feel for, so that IT may become clearer.