They Live We Sleep (Cream) 1/4 is among the most conceptually layered works in the Triple Trouble series, drawing its title from John Carpenter's 1988 cult science-fiction film — a text long canonized in critical and street-art circles for its allegory of mass manipulation and hidden power structures. Produced using letterpress and mixed media collage with hand-painted intervention, designating it as an HPM (Hand Painted Multiple), the work sits at a compelling intersection of mechanical reproduction and unique artistic gesture, each of the four variants carrying its own painterly mark. The cream colorway lends the piece an almost archival, manifesto-like quality, as though it were unearthed rather than made — reinforcing the film's theme of revealed hidden truths. Fairey's propaganda-style composition and symbolic imagery transform the source material into a rallying visual text, consistent with his decades-long practice of using art as a vehicle for social and political awakening. As a 2025 work, it positions itself urgently within contemporary discourse around surveillance, media control, and collective complicity.