Before the Disaster: Toothbrushes

This colourful tapestry shows a line of nine differently coloured toothbrushes hanging on a wall above a bathroom sink. It is part of a series Anna Olsson calls Before the Disaster, which focuses on things we take for granted today but which may be hard-to-achieve luxuries in the future if the world as we know it collapses. Anna is often struck by the fact that we live as if disasters can never hit us, whereas other people and communities in other parts of the world face them daily.