I think if you are wanting to achieve more than a plain object, you have to do much more to get it to conform and give it morphs and stuff.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi