"Perhaps one day, after my art has opened everybody's eyes, some enthusiastic soul will rescue me from the gutter." - Paul Gauguin, letters from Brittany & the South Seas

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Whatever your belief (or non-belief) regarding life after death, and whichever term you apply: reincarnation, life after life, everlasting life, "Pass It On" is a story of two artists from two different centuries with striking parallels, amazing coincidences, and humorous ironies linking them together. The story has all the attributes of a great fiction classic, but it's a true story and even the authors can't claim creative rights over it. Technically, history already wrote this story, the authors are simply passing it on.

Along with the series of parallels linking the two artists together after more than 100 years, Peter Teekamp claims to have come face to face with evidence that gives him an understanding into Gauguin's art that no one has ever written about. The evidence stems from a series of coincidences that also led Peter to a discovery within Gauguin's artworks. 

The Dutch artist, Teekamp, believes he is that "enthusiastic soul" Gauguin refers to. Teekamp claims a unique insight into the mysterious world and hidden meanings of the art and life of the famous and controversial French artist.

Teekamp believes Gauguin was misunderstood and remained an enigma throughout his life and even in death. Gauguin continues to be a mystery as books with various views on his art continue to be published. There are more than 160 titles written about him, but his philosophies and art are being interpreted and presented by Teekamp in a way never before considered.

A lifetime of recurring themes of coincidence connecting him to Gauguin, from the simple occurrence of a book falling open to pages about the artist (not just once, but too many times to write off as mere coincidence), to strangers walking up to him and announcing his connection to Gauguin, there was one final event that caused Teekamp to study the French artist in a way no one ever had. The serious study began years into Teekamp's own art career when he was actually accused of being the spirit of Paul Gauguin reincarnated. This was a claim he was not sure he wished to believe but even more difficult for him to ignore.

For numerous reasons this caused Teekamp great distress. At that time the little knowledge he had of Gauguin was not necessarily positive. In fact, Gauguin was regarded with contempt by some for leaving his wife and family behind in search of his artists' paradise of primitive man and unspoiled nature. (This is certainly not the only version. It is said that Mette Gauguin fully supported her husband and understood his need to explore a different environment to fulfill his creative passions. It was Gauguin's hope to be successful, it was Mrs. Gauguin's hope and intention to promote and sell the works he sent home.)

Now, with a bombardment of coincidence, Teekamp was no longer able to pass off this mystery as simple irony. He had to find out what the connections and parallels to Gauguin were telling him. He knew there was something there that needed further study. He began to look closer at Gauguin's life and art and found some amazing parallels and a startling discovery.

The discovery refers to a hidden secret within the artworks of Paul Gauguin that has not been exposed in more than 100 years. A secret clearly revealed to Peter Teekamp and found in his own artworks years before the parallels were ever researched.  This is just one of the pieces to a puzzle, more events concerning the clues that led to Peter's discovery fall into place years after this information was assembled.