[aardvark1]

I'm not sure I caught what your criptic comment was getting at but I'll respond to what I think you meant.

The Word was God. We worship, venerate, adore, honor, etc. Jesus Christ not because he is flesh but because he is God in the flesh. In Him is fullness of the Godhead bodily.

[Destro]

We are on diff wave lengths. Since an aspect of the Trinity came to us in human form, then what was once unknowable and unshowable (the Godhead) became flesh to be seen, touched, painted, recorded. The proscription on images no longer applied beyond making sure that the image only served as a visual refrence to veneration and not a substitution for what is being venerated.

I guess that is my layman's attempt.

Icons are as old as the Church - See Jesus Fish.