“He brought up the phrase ‘a second look’ really in thinking about how his parents trained him to be observant in the world. The family traveled a lot; he said his parents would make him stop and say ‘have a look at that’. It taught him to realize that often times things in the world are intentionally put together, even if it looks haphazard or thrown together, people usually have some kind of thinking, logic (behind) it. You have to pay attention to what people are doing on other peoples’ terms, really be sensitive to how people want to live aesthetically.” - MCA senior curator Naomi Beckwith talking about Olowu’s notion of a ‘second look’.