The research takes an interest in the vital role of framing and representation for the construction and mediation of power practices. The thesis works off the premise that deep-seated ideological frameworks, found in everyday objects, have birthed banal and silent commonplaces. Through the use and operation of these objects, we unconsciously trigger power relations and modes of violence as embedded micro-practices - rendering these forces ubiquitous. I am interested in how these latent frameworks by which we process knowledge have been set and re-set, in various forms and disciplines, through ordinary objects, such as a flower, or a word. The thesis unravels their broader historical contexts to offer a novel reading on how their embedded social, cultural, and political agencies deploy certain ideologies. An analysis of each objects’ original historical frameworks begins the research, together with subsequent readings and representations. The frame thus serves a dual function in exploring the epistemic limits of the artefacts, as well as opening up the space of critique. I put forward that it is precisely through the medium of the frame, a subversive medium of process and negotiation: the fool’s voice in challenging our systems of knowledge and power, as truth.