diff --git a/subwave_nowplaying.star b/subwave_nowplaying.star
index 4896ab4..e2ccab3 100644
--- a/subwave_nowplaying.star
+++ b/subwave_nowplaying.star
@@ -223,23 +223,37 @@ def _art_widget(art_bytes, zoom_scale):
     # don't actually agree on framing despite both nominally being "scale
     # 1.0". Using the same wrapper unconditionally guarantees the "off"
     # state and the rest state of every zoom level line up exactly.
+    #
+    # animation.Scale's pivot is fixed at the top-left corner (confirmed
+    # empirically; an explicit `origin` param has no effect at all). Left
+    # alone, that means zooming in crops progressively *more* off the
+    # bottom and right than the top and left -- most of the animation's
+    # duration is spent between keyframes, not sitting at the symmetric
+    # rest state, so this read as a persistent bottom/right crop. Pairing
+    # Scale with a Translate that's a deterministic function of the same
+    # scale value (`shift`) re-centers the zoom so it crops evenly from
+    # all sides instead -- verified against a calibration grid image.
+    # This is safe because scale never drops below 1.0 here: the
+    # black-border bug from an earlier version came from combining
+    # Translate with scale *below* 1.0, not from Translate itself.
     top_scale = max(zoom_scale, 1.0)
+    shift = (1.0 - top_scale) * (ART_SIZE / 2.0)
     zoom = animation.Transformation(
         child = art,
         duration = ART_ZOOM_DURATION,
         keyframes = [
             animation.Keyframe(
                 percentage = 0.0,
-                transforms = [animation.Scale(1.0, 1.0)],
+                transforms = [animation.Scale(1.0, 1.0), animation.Translate(0, 0)],
             ),
             animation.Keyframe(
                 percentage = 0.5,
-                transforms = [animation.Scale(top_scale, top_scale)],
+                transforms = [animation.Scale(top_scale, top_scale), animation.Translate(shift, shift)],
                 curve = "ease_in_out",
             ),
             animation.Keyframe(
                 percentage = 1.0,
-                transforms = [animation.Scale(1.0, 1.0)],
+                transforms = [animation.Scale(1.0, 1.0), animation.Translate(0, 0)],
                 curve = "ease_in_out",
             ),
         ],