When the Orthodox venerate an Icon of a Saint, we are not bowing down to paint and wood, nor are we bowing down to the Saint, but rather we are venerating the Christ in that Saint, and we are humbling ourselves in the process. The honor goes to the prototype, which is Christ our God. All of the faithful within the body of Christ are “baptized into Christ”, and have “put on Christ”. In our unity of faith, we therefore look to the Christ within one another. It is a wonderful reminder that when we come upon a fellow Christian in faith and love, WE are the lower one and we bow low before the Christ showing forth in them. Now that's a new spin on it...We can expect to see you then bowing down before each other and praying to each other to venerate Christ in each other...
Perhaps you then can ask each other to perform miracles for you as you do with the wood, paint and concrete graven images...