Alexander Milov built "Love" for the 2015 Burning Man festival in Nevada. The sculpture is large-scale steel: two adult human forms, hunched away from each other, expressions closed. Inside each adult form, a small luminous child figure reaches outward through the wire mesh of the ribcage toward the child in the other figure. The adult bodies are dark and cold. The children inside are glowing.
The piece is about the gap between how adults present themselves and what they actually want. Adults sit with barriers up. They've built complicated defenses out of experience, ego, and the social contracts that make professional life function. The children inside haven't learned those barriers yet. They still reach toward whoever is in front of them without strategy, without the protective irony that adults carry everywhere.
Rock Paper Scissors collapses that gap, at least briefly. The game doesn't need your professional self. It doesn't benefit from your workplace persona or your social positioning or the way you've learned to be in rooms where you need something from someone. It needs three possible gestures, a simultaneous reveal, and whoever you actually are under pressure. Which is, in Milov's terms, the person inside the adult form.
The interesting competitive note is that the inner child in this context is not actually the safer bet. Adults carry behavioral patterns built from years of experience, and those patterns are the foundation of RPS tells: the win-stay reflex, the loss-shift cycle, the tendency to open with Rock because the hand is already closed before the count. The inner child is more genuinely random, less pattern-compromised, less easy to read through the conditional response research. In the specific domain of competitive Rock Paper Scissors, the unguarded self has a structural advantage over the strategic one.
Milov's sculpture won the Burning Man Honoraria award in 2015. It has been displayed in multiple cities since. The WRPSA art series includes it because the relationship between adult strategy and childhood instinct is one of the game's recurring themes, and nobody has depicted it in steel at this scale.