“Easter Eggs” is a project I started in the early months of 2025 and eventually turned into a collaborative exhibit with The Orlando Museum of Art.

If you had been anywhere around downtown Orlando during that time, you probably saw my face plastered somewhere. Over a couple of months, I hung hundreds of signs that said things like ‘Wanted for too much fun’ or ‘I just want to be loved!’ alongside a photo of myself that linked to my Instagram. People from all over the city began tagging and sharing the signs.

Eventually, they found their way to the curator of the Orlando Museum of Art, Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon. Coralie has been one of my biggest champions over the years and always a HUGE supporter of me and work.

She showed up at the opening of my ‘Real Time’ exhibit and asked, ‘Why didn’t you put one in the museum?’

It felt like a funny question if I was honest. ‘Why?’ I didn’t want to be disrespectful or just show up and put one up at such an institution without permission!! The interaction seemed quite comical.

As we chatted more, she invited me to hide them around the museum. A few weeks passed and before I knew it I had created 20 different signs and we were setting up for the whole city to see them at the opening of ‘The Florida Prize’.

These signs found me in a moment of transition—between freelance projects, adjusting to life alone for the first time, and rediscovering myself after a three-year relationship.

I began to wonder: ‘What if I left fragments of myself across the city?’ Would anyone notice? Would it matter? The answer, it turned out, was yes.

Inside the museum, we hung 20 hidden ‘Easter Eggs’—small photographs and handwritten notes tucked away for museum goers to find in secret. Some offered encouragement; others prompted reflection or just existed to bring about a smile.

This project began as a way to navigate my own uncertainty, but in the quiet moments of creating it, I found something deeper. Perhaps you will, too.

Below are the images we hid and some of the process photos of the installation and hiding them around the city. This project truly has been a gift.”

- David Lawrence