Pedro Lasch’s Who are the Secret Nine? is a simple text mural that speaks to the abstraction associated with numbers, as well as their connection to mysteries and conspiracies, both real and imaginary. In the local context, the mention of the secret nine may conjure the memory of the only armed coup to ever demote an elected government in U.S. history, but the associations made by viewers and passersby will extend to many other possible readings and contexts.