50 Scars, 13 Stripes is an artistic device appropriating the aesthetic of the American flag in order to encourage dialogue for the mental, emotional, psychological, and physical lacerations America has cast on the Afro-American community. What used to be majorly recognized as a symbol of freedom and unity is now quite emblematic of the racism inherent in the country, however to the black community these connotations of said symbolisms are something that have always been nominal. This piece aims to reiterate and illustrate how the American U.S. nation was built on the backs of Trans-Atlantic Slave trade victims and how this is something that remains pervasive in contemporary society with their descendants. Thirteen stripes on the backs of blacks is reminiscent of the gashes from the inhumanity of slavery while fifty scars represent the bullet wounds left by the perpetual, unjust homicides to black bodies rampant in the Judicial system committed by police officers left without repercussion. The literal genocide of Afro-American peoples has always been an institutional apparatus for agency amongst a surfeit of other socio-political mechanisms that are now being made more overt than ever. A system constructed to flourish from the genocide of the Afro-American community will always find that stipulation mandatory in order to continue thriving. The visual piece is accompanied by an elegy poem, Fabric of Fabrication, whose substance communicates the aesthetic of the artwork in a poetic fashion.