Hear-See-Speak (shadow) (Remastered)

A stark triad of enforced silence: three contorted figures crouch in shadow, hands clamped over ears, eyes, mouth—yet the central figure strains upward in anguish, as if the weight of unspoken truth is too heavy to bear. This is not whimsy; it is accusation. The refusal to see, hear, or speak injustice rendered in raw charcoal on unforgiving paper. Original work by Albert Zeno (Albany Zeno Sr., 1929–1999), remastered and preserved in 2025 by his son, Albany Zeno Jr., using AI-assisted techniques that honor the artist's intent, negative space, and unflinching confrontation with enforced silence. Part of the Zeno Reborn: Genesis collection — the first public digital resurrection of a lost Chicago surrealist whose work exposed nuclear anxiety, environmental collapse, and the parallel exploitation of people and nature, as embodied in the enduring 1972 Hyde Park "Alewives and Mercury Fish" mural. This piece stands as a direct indictment of the triple silence imposed on Black artists and communities.