Jillian Mcdonald proposes two unrealized extensions of her ongoing artistic interest in the role of fear for entertainment specifically through the popular medium of horror films. The interventions embedded in these works lends them to the transformation of self and environment. This transformation is at the heart of the concept of Metamorphosis. Metamorphosis implies a sense of magic, a transformation, a development, a maturing, a realization. A chrysalis' metamorphosis holds the utmost anticipation. The shaking chrysalis is a metaphor for the transformation of climax, the in-between, the forming, and the actual moment of transformation.

This moment of transformation is found in the first half of Mcdonald's proposal, entitled Z Train. This public intervention further develops her 2006 performance Horror Make Up which took place on the New York subway system. In Z Train, hundreds of people dressed as regular commuters would board the BART train in San Francisco during the crowded morning commute. While traversing into the city, these planted actors would slowly apply garrish make-up, magically transforming them into zombie-like states that is further acted out as they get up to exit the train, grunting and moaning - completely transmogrified.

The second half of Mcdonald's proposal is an unrealized reconfiguration of her earlier Screaming. Entitled Zombie Movies, Mcdonald transforms familiar film landscapes into new environments of interaction. The transposing of horror characters into non-horror films in this proposed video work resequences the narratives of the movies into the formation of an unexpected new fiction.