 From a Deweyan viewpoint, expression then means processing external material “through the alembic of personal experience”. However, the material itself belongs to “the common world and so has qualities in common with the material of other experiences”. Expression thereby organically connects “a personal act” and an “objective result” (AE: 88). The fact that in expression the artist’s personal experience is mediated through objective material opens the possibility for the audience to share the artist’s vision embodied in the work. An effort to communicate by these sorts of objective means is what turns the external material into a medium, that is, “an intermediary” between the artist and audience (AE: 201). But as the experience behind expression is “intensely individualized”, the work can also open for the public 