The work in the Radium series revolves around the concept of mapping stories. The way stories are remembered and passed on, how they become lost, hidden, changed through time, and sometimes forgotten. The artwork is composed of three main narrative components. The first is that of the Radium Girls' experience. At the beginning of the twentieth Century, young women were employed in factories to paint watch dials and other instruments with radium-laced luminous paint. As part of their jobs, the women needed to “point” their paintbrushes with their tongues or face repercussions from the male supervisors. In the process, the women swallowed radium, which resulted in pain, disfigurement and sometimes death. The second narrative element comes from research I did while teaching in Poland. Maria Sklodowska-Curie, the woman who, along with her husband, discovered radium, where I visited the home of Maria Sklodowska-Curie, the woman who, along with her husband, discovered radium. And the third narrative component is informed by the experience of my relatives, who made their livings working in factories, as well as my own experience as a factory worker, making the inside parts for pacemakers.