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Crop Circle Press is an indie publishing house from Naomi Falk and Colette Bernheim that focuses on nontraditional visual art and experimental prose. 


Mike Corrao
Being Towards Death
AUTUMN 2025




Yr wounds open like a window
Where I'm  t h r a s h i n g
In the garden’s sepulchers



…Within the fabric of dying capitalism, the omniscient voice emerges. It watches you, fixates on your every movement as you spiral and spill through a compound of occult, otherworldly structures that have been converted into low-income housing. In this slippery, dark realm, ideas from previous iterations of humanity are irrecoverable, undownloadable. Only fragments of language remain: textured, glitchy, unpredictable.



The voice tells you: “We are living in times of exceptional instability.” Extreme and unresolvable polarities compose the foundation of the text: collapse + creation; confusion + elation; hilarity + hypnosis; concealment + omniscience. Being Towards Death presents a cruelty severe enough to manipulate the framework of matter and life itself. 



The work resists traditional genre conformity entirely. Corrao’s structural, architectonic illustrations spill over the text in designs of chaos and unrest. They act as winding roads among a landscape where language suffocates on itself, backdropped by climate anxiety, housing inequality, and poverty. 


Although you’ll exit Being Towards Death, its design will stay woven inside you, gouging permanent structures into your psyche. Even after the world returns, glimmers of Corrao’s Molochian underworld still slip through its seams.



MIKE CORRAO 
is the author of a number of works including the novels, Gut Text (11:11 Press) and Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede (11:11 Press); the poetry collections,The Persimmon is an Event (Broken Sleep Books) and Under Reef(Onomatopee Projects); the plays Smut-Maker (Inside the Castle) and Cephalonegativity (Apocalypse Party); and the essay collection, Surface Studies (Action Books). His work blends writing and book design to explore themes of autonomy, climate anxiety, and anti-capitalism.



Ryan Bock: I’m Not Funded by the CIA


With a foreword by curator and writer Akeem Duncan, an essay by publisher Naomi Falk, an in-depth interview with curator Ágnes Berecz, and stills from an accompanying experimental film by 22/Red  Expanse.
10 x 8 in., edition of 100

Can art still hold the transformative power of truth and change for its viewers if it has reached a point in time of being presented as pure commodity? How can an artist untether their practice from the art market? These are the central questions of Ryan Bock’s most recent body of work, presented at Ki Smith Gallery in 2022.


Bock, known for his immersive installations and severe, angular, grayscale works, presents here a range of paintings and sculptures as well as his celebrated Ode to Duchamp: a Liar, a lifesize chess board that encapsulates the element of mischievousness and play that laces this otherwise politically-charged body of work.




Manuel Alejandro:  XIVIX
*rest in peace*



With texts by Naomi Falk, Sophie Golub, Mina Hamedi, and Chris Molnar
10 x 8 in., 101 pp., 74 color illustrations
(Sophie Golub, Project Manager/Assistant Editor; Roman Dean, Photographer; Leyla Hamedi, proofreader)

An essential, path-breaking first document from an elusive and important  voice in the world of painting.

Manuel Alejandro’s work is phantasmagoric and possessing of a singular vision expressing itself across paintings abstract, symbolic, colorful and dark. Bodies and faces, flesh and symbol, all fixed in unknown tableaux, fading in and out of unearthly textures and landscapes. XIVIX: The Collected Works of Manuel Alejandro brings together the oeuvre of one of America’s finest young painters for the first time. An anomaly in the modern world of art – accepted to Parsons but rejecting it and holding no higher education, living in Brooklyn without selling his work – Alejandro’s visual art stands obstinately on its own, establishing a new road for the next generation to imitate, independent from hypercapitalist machinations and compromise. Almost exclusively using oil on canvas, these paintings (along with a series of revelatory drawings) rejuvenate traditional methods and make them bracing, strange, and full of possibility.

Beautifully bound in hardcover as the debut project of Crop Circle Press, the latest venture from Naomi Falk, MoMA rights coordinator and editor for Archway Editions/powerHouse Books, XIVIX is both a bold representation of an anti-commercial spirit and a work of art unto itself. Featuring brand new texts from editor Falk, along with Sophie Golub, Mina Hamedi and Chris Molnar, all of which act as another level of artistic accomplishment, refracting Alejandro’s work through the lens of prose and poetry.

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