The hole acts as a window into the processes of daily life. During the work itself, the hole acts as a window into the processes of daily life. We're not meant to see the pipes which bring water to our homes or internet to our phones, but the roadworker exposes the inner-workings of discrete societal infrastructure. When the roadworker themselves enters the hole, we're being allowed to see society itself being maintained.
On the most basic level, roadworks are rectangular holes in rectangular planes. A road is a long, thick line, its width growing and shrinking as lanes are added or removed. A basic, one-lane roadwork to, say, repair a pipe, cuts a canvas-shaped trench into the asphalt. We're dealing here with the interaction of simple geometric shapes, rectangular intrusions on rectangular surfaces.
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