A “thoughtograph” made by Ted Serios of a figure walking into a building

The artist I was originally fascinated by, Kellyann Geurts, calls herself a thoughtographer as she takes her own rendering of the thought combined with the science of brain imaging from EEG’s to create a new a fascinating piece of scientific art. “Thoughtography” is practice originating in China and spreading to many other countries from there and gaining popularity as it went. The idea was that a psychic could project theirs or others’ thoughts onto film or photo paper using the power of their mind. One of the most famous “thoughtographic photographers” was Ted Serios, during the 1960s, who could place images from his mind onto film using only psychic energy. Serios was so renowned because many scientist came to watch him perform his “thoughtography” and try to figure out how he did it but even to this day we do not know.
After the 60’s the psychic trend of “thoughtography” slowly died off but the idea of capturing thought and the activity in the brain still fascinated scientists and artists alike.

Rendering of a thought from Besant and Leadbeater’s book “Though-Forms”

More recent “thoughtographers” are Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater who wrote a book on capturing the idea of the human thought in artistic form.

Source: Annie Besant, C.W. Leadbeater (July 12, 2005). Thought-Forms