Under Fired

Just before, actually the day before the gallery opening, I got a substantial quantity of stuff from the kiln. Unfortunately about half of this stuff was under fired. It was like a sucker punch to my stomach, but I dealt with it ,I had to. In addition to this I extensively used a newly made batch of a glaze called shiro matto that I've often used in the past. I had always used it in reduction, this time I used an oxidation firing to try to speed things up but what I got was instead was totally unrecognizable, and in some cases under fired! ugh! Sho ga nai as they say over here... Again, nothing I could do about it, had to take it in stride, but I can say it had a demoralizing affect on my emotions during the gallery. I know that this is only the result of my expectations. Most of this work sold actually. Outside of my own thought processes there were no expectations for color texture, or design, perhaps other than a reasonable level of expectation concerning quality. It makes me wonder, how do you balance your own desires and artistic vision with that of the public to which you are totally unknown, and who have no expectations of you? In other words... How do you know what is crap?