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Carl Wilson's "The Flow of Water," for example, is a 6-minute animated film in a surreal visual language that tells the story of a woman struggling to find herself. It's a parable for Wilson's own experience, breaking free from the strictly controlled life he lived for 30 years as a Jehovah's Witness.
Buy PhotoArtist Carl Wilson with part of an installation he is working on at the Carr Center in Detroit.
To watch the film, viewers will step inside a 10-foot-by-10-foot structure that Wilson says will be akin to walking into a three-dimensional version of one of his prints, populated with favorite imagery. "It's like stepping into an alternative reality," said the 58-year-old artist.
"I want my audience to share the experience with me now that I've changed my life, and I have the power to say, 'This is what I want to do.' "
If there is a broader message for Detroit, Wilson said, it's that the city and its people have the power to defy expectations, to chart their own future.