In a collaboration with photographer Marc Anthony Iannini of i3Images featuring short stories I wrote as Orlando Bé for an upcoming book, the joint efforts in words and images offer a spiritual result to viewers in a partnership with one of our favorite charities in San Diego. 

My Public Relations efforts now are geared toward finding the best recipient of the funds raised and the venue for it. The task is daunting, as the different nonprofits and causes are many.

One proposed display of the show is a simple arrangement of photographs and printed short stories hanging from a steel cable, using decorative clips to hold both photographs and stories in a non-linear narrative.

The exhibition presents the story of the fictional character Lucius Bod, a traveler who shares stories written whilst capturing the scenes surrounding him as landscapes of longing and pleasure as vignettes in a Diary.

“The hotel was built as a premier resort for the wealthy. It is one of the oldest and largest all-wooden buildings in California and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977.

Notable guests have included Thomas Edison, L. Frank Baum, Charlie Chaplin, Babe Ruth, Veronica Covance, and Charles Lindbergh.

The following presidents have stayed at the hotel: Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.

The hotel has appeared in several films, including Some Like it Hot (which starred Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis), The Stunt Man, and My Blue Heaven.

The unique design of the Hotel served as the basis for Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.”

Image: Hotel Del Coronado by © Nathan Rupert/Flickr