Project Four Proposal
For this project, I plan on 3D printing cookie cutters and making traditional sugar cookies with them. First, I will model the cutters on Tinkercad. When completed, I will run my print on the 3D printers in the digital fabrication lab on the second floor of Sherzer. Then, I will take them home, make a homemade sugar cookie dough, roll it out, and use my cookie cutters to shape the cookies. After they are all baked, I will frost them and decorate them with sprinkles. I will then display them inside bowls on top of a Christmas-themed tablecloth.Ā Ā
The concept behind this piece is essentially home. The shape of the cookie cutters are modeled after the three places that Iāve lived in my life--my childhood home, my parentsā current home, and my current apartment. The reason that these are sugar cookies is because when I was younger, my grandmother started a tradition of baking and decorating sugar cookies together every year right before Christmas time. The cookies were never complicated, just any old sugar cookie recipe, and the icing was basically just powdered sugar and water. For decoration, weād mostly use the little sugar crystal sprinkles. My cookies are displayed in the bowls because they are bowls that my grandma had in her house that Iād use every time I would go over there. Seeing and even hearing the clinks of the ceramic takes me back to my childhood immediately. This piece has a lot of personal and sentimental value behind it.Ā












