I Will Win (2005): Erik Van Loon portrayed himself traditionally using the colors and elements of the American flag and the Dutch Royal House of Orange;
	I Will Win 2 - The News  (2006): Erik Van Loon portrayed himself as the frontpage of the New York Times with which I demonstrated the use of letters and words in imagery to challenge and stimulate the viewer’s experience of art like Johns, Nauman and Rauschenberg did. Besides that it is also a autobiographical self-portrait in which I painted myself in past, present and future.
	I Will Win 3 - The Statue (2007): Erik Van Loon portrayed himself as the Statue of Liberty by painting myself as the Greek soldier Pheidippides, who was sent from Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek victory over the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.
	I Will Win 4 - The Runner (2008): Erik Van Loon portrayed himself running naked in Central Park. This selfportrait is inspired by Edvard Muybridge selfportrait photoseries Disk Step Walk. With this photoserie and other photoseries made primarily in the US. In fact he is the Father of the Motion Picture (=film).

GUERILLA ART:
In 2005 Erik Van Loon arrived in New York, without permission or a suitable place to reveal his first I Will Win selfportrait. Determined to show his self portrait to the world, he arranged a location near the 20 mile mark of the Marathon by convincing Mr. Anthony M. Riccio, Sr. Vice President of the Harlem River Yard Ventures to give Erik Van Loon the opportunity to show his first ‘I Will Win’ selfportrait at his yard near mark 20 at to the Bronx side of the Willis Avenue Bridge.

Mr. Anthony M. Riccio, Vice President of Harlem River Yard Ventures explained for Dutch TV with the following words why he gave permission:
"He's just full of energy, I mean, I have never seen a person so interested and devoted to what he is doing.  So how do you say no to that? You don't." - Anthony Riccio, Sr. (www.erikvanloon.com/iww/iww1/publicaties.htm)

THE HISTORY:
This year Erik Van Loon is working on a painting in which he present himself as a collage of 400 years enduring friendship between the Netherlands and New York which was founded in 1609 as New Amsterdam by Dutch settlers. In this collage you will find a small self-portrait of him as Neil Armstrong (who walked on the moon), as an Indian (who watched the arrival of the Half Moon) and as Hans Brinker (who saved the Netherlands by putting his finger is a dike).

Moreover, in his self-portrait you will find among others also pictures of Anne Frank with a personal note written in Dutch in which she fantasies to be an actress in Hollywood, the Lincoln Memorial, Orville Wright first flight, the windmills of Kinderdijk (since 1997 on UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites) and Thomas Edison as inventor of electric light.

THE EXHIBITION:
On November 1^st the 38.000 participants of the New York City Marathon and hopefully 260 million people in 120 countries will see I Will Win 5 – The History for six to seven seconds when media-helicopters film the first women and men crossing the Willis Avenue Bridge near mark 20.