wireframes illustrate elements of a website even though they aren't a polished and finished design, they show how a certain page on a certain website will function in the most effective and efficient way. Wireframes save money, energy, and time when they are created so they can perform usability testing much early on in the developmental process
Many times you will see in cubist artworks "deconstructing" an object, looking at it from different perspectives and portraying all of them at the same time, creating a "dissected" 2D image of a 3D object.