Taste the Tropics

Thrive Collective was asked to recommend a New York artist with roots in the Caribbean to live paint during a product launch event called, “Taste the Tropics.” Ashley Crawford was an obvious candidate, and she was selected for the collaboration between two iconic brands, Vita Coco and Captain Morgan. She described her design as: “a portrait of a carnival reveler getting ready. In a surrealistic way I’ve superimposed her to be sitting inside of an opened coconut surrounded by flora from the islands, to represent the vitality and flavor of island people. Her eyes pull onlookers in with their seductiveness.”