Where There's Smoke is one of the most symbolically charged works in the Triple Trouble collection, bringing Shepard Fairey and Damien Hirst into direct creative dialogue through the deceptively simple but loaded medium of household gloss and spray paint on canvas. The materials themselves are a statement: household gloss is Hirst's signature domestic-industrial medium, stripped of fine-art pretension, while spray paint is the foundational tool of street art, tying Fairey's world to the urban vernacular. The title's proverb — 'where there's smoke, there's fire' — implies concealed danger, scandal, or truth lurking beneath a visible surface, a theme that resonates deeply with both artists' careers built on provocation and cultural disruption. The collaboration forces a collision of Hirst's cool, systemic formalism with Fairey's agitprop graphic energy, producing a work that is neither wholly one nor the other but something genuinely hybrid and confrontational. As a 2025 piece, it feels like a deliberate culmination — two artists with decades of controversy between them making visible the smoke that has always surrounded their respective practices.