Sam Salter for FY!

Get Acquainted With Sam Salter, The Boundary-Pushing Artist Causing A Stir With His Masterful Prowess Despite facing a deep-down hiatus of talent overload, some people are born to create their lane through something incredibly special. And as luck may want it, this is what I sense the moment I hit up conversation with Sam. Undeniably, the talent’s glorious Instagram gives us much to fawn over and admire, but he also reminds me that the nature of an independent artist is “factually 2% glamour.” Behind it, Salter is a real person with instinctive frustrations and a huge set of desires, making his practice even more applicable. We speak about the burden of retaining a strong social media presence, mull over the perplexities of masculinity in modern culture and engage in the poignant flow of society-caused stigmas. “[Identity] is being who you are authentic with no apologies. I’ve found somewhat of an identity, but I’m always working on it. I think a lot of us are. You grow, you change, you learn lessons, make mistakes, create memories, get inspired, get uninspired. And that, to me, is my identity ever-evolving” he comments. His dance vocation, for one, is certainly worth giving a fuck about. Describing his profession as an “idiom of expressivity”, he’s managed to fine-tune a balance between fashion and dance, which occasionally spun in strife. You’d be forgiven for thinking Sam’s catalog of uncertainties stretched to major feats, however, sometimes it isn’t all sunshine and lig