To give an example, one of the things that I have always liked is the suggestion of stillness Egyptian art. It has always produced a strong emotional feeling in me. There is so much geometrical rigor that movements become stillnesses for all eternity. I like the perennial nature of gesture. I believe very much in the prototype.
Art is full of prototypes that respond to that desire to make objects out of persons.
When you look at Greek art, you think that all the persons in that art are brothers or cousins. Every figure has the same head, the same nose, etc. These were idealizations of a figure, as if only one model existed. It was an idealization that defined the traits of people. It is for that reason that these figures became objects.