...Only the road has meaning here, It leads into the world's cities like a long fuse laid.

Hosho rolls of paper hanging back in studio. 

The quote from Judith Wright 's poem, refers to what  Val Plumwood describes :you come to realise that many of the things happening here are the result of what's going on in the city. So the 'long fuse laid' represents the destructive demands imposed on one place by another place.