How to Pick Up Girls (Porthole Series) encases its provocation in deceptive sweetness. Sula Bermúdez-Silverman constructs this intimate 2021 work from isomalt sugar tinted with food dye, transparency film, and miniature knives, all suspended within a layer of epoxy resin. The result is a jewel-like object that reads, at first glance, as confection, its glassy surface catching light with the saturated appeal of hard candy. Only gradually does the viewer register the blades embedded within, transforming the piece from something to be consumed into something that bites back. Bermúdez-Silverman's practice consistently interrogates the aesthetics of femininity as both trap and armor, and this work is no exception. The title borrows the language of predatory social scripts and reframes it entirely, placing the viewer in an uncomfortable position of complicity before shifting the terms of power. The porthole format, shared across this ongoing series, suggests a contained world glimpsed rather than entered, a scene observed through glass that keeps both the object and its danger at a remove. Sugar here is not mere material choice but pointed metaphor, evoking cultural expectations around sweetness, palatability, and the performance of girlhood. At just under 18 centimeters tall, the work is physically modest but conceptually dense, a quality that has come to define Bermúdez-Silverman's most compelling output. The piece is signed by the artist and offered through the Feminist Center for Creative Work Benefit Auction, situating it within a community of practice that aligns with its politics. For collectors drawn to works that sustain rigorous conceptual weight within a highly seductive material presence, this is a singular and timely acquisition.