The girls have all designed a symbol to honor a personal loss in the style of Adinkra stamps. The Ashanti people of Ghana and the Ivory Coast in Africa use the stamps to print on fabric that they wear as a funerary custom that comes from a story of two kings long ago. Each stamp has a story and a meaning that honors the qualities of the people who passed away.
The girls told stories of their own personal losses and designed stamps with similar criteria: strong positive and negative shapes, thick black lines, abstract, unique, and fits in a square. They carved the stamp out of linoleum squares and will print them in an array on cloth next.
