Rirkrit Tiravanija’s engagement with politics and propaganda can be seen across his ongoing series of slogan paintings on newspaper pages. The slogan of this work is ‘Come Together’, where the letters of both words have been overlayed across two panels. With the slogan ‘Come Together’ Tiravanija references senators from the American Democratic Party who used this particular slogan to rally against the George W. Bush administration.

In this work the phrase is painted in Tiravanija’s signature font in encaustic over pages of The New York Times edition from the day after Obama's second inauguration on 21 January 2013. It is poignant that the theme of his second inauguration was "Faith in America's Future".

Using encaustic Tiravanija replicates the painting process of Jasper Johns in his iconic work Flag (1954-55), where Johns mounted strips of newspaper and painted in encaustic the American flag. In John’s work sections of the newspaper are visible beneath the stars and stripes of the flag. Tiravanija is making a direct comment on American politics, through the combination of the slogan, mimicking Johns’ process, and the underlay of pages from The New York Times that headline significant political moments and social issues.