please don't touch the scanner

I've played with the idea of leaving a piece of bread inside the scanner and scanning it once every 24 hours. In that way I can perhaps follow the progression of a piece of bread from baked flour into a work of art. It's not a difficult task - all I have to do is remember to click on "scan" once a day.

The more difficult part is leaving the scanner free for that purpose. After all, the most important part of a project such as this is leaving that slice of bread in place. If there's anything significant and/or worthwhile in a project such as this it's the precision involved in the daily scan. And if I take the bread out of the scanner and put it back each day I'm going to miss that precision.

As is to be expected, there are lenghty periods of time during which I don't need the scanner - periods of time during which I don't encounter anything that demands preservation via digitization. But it's a good bet that if I keep a piece of bread in the scanner, purposefully not moving it, so that I can scan it day after day, numerous items are going to present themselves and demand that I digitize them, in that way putting an end to the precision necessary for preserving the growth of the mold. And if by chance there isn't anything in dire need of scanning, there's probably somebody in the house, more concerned with health than with art, who asks "what's that strange smell coming from the direction of the scanner?", and in that way puts an end to this project.