This article explores ways of creating public art, ways of looking, and ways of remembering. It focuses on how one work in Albuquerque, New Mexico, twines around these three notions and produces new ways of thinking about each. In this article, the author focuses on one component within a larger work of public art--"Numbe Whageh" by Nora Naranjo-Morse. The piece actively presents an opportunity to rethink the world around it. By extension, it also presents the opportunity to rethink one's self. It offers little prescription for looking and instead encourages the imaginative by engaging the senses. The author offers here neither a detailed chronology nor a complete art historical record. Rather, she examines the speculative and theoretical contours and possibilities within the piece. (Contains 5 figures and 27 notes.)