Freedom at last from the prison of "The Maze" would come with Kurelek's later conversion to Roman Catholicism; this evolution is depicted in the film "William Kurelek's The Maze". In 1971, he painted "Out of the Maze" which he presented as a gift to Maudsley Hospital. The work depicts Kurelek with his wife and four children saying grace at a picnic near a pond on the prairie. Ostensibly an image of peace, the painting holds reminders of a darker Kurelek vision. In the bottom left corner, a bisected skull reminds the viewer of the artist's troubled past. And in the far upper right, a dark storm is on the horizon.