This chapter illustrates the relational, environmental and material qualities of spaces co-created with children to engage in affective, visual and embodied agentic processes, freed from direction and control, which I term Creative Encounters. Children initiate their creative expressive processes, through moments of reflection, recognition and intra-action with human and more-than-human actors, in a place that offers its material tools and invites their vibrancy. Children make art in attunement with their personal values, cadences and timing, in autonomy, in ways that reflect the freedoms that adult-artists enjoy; their art becoming an invitation for those who are engaged at different times with the work as a cultural, emancipatory and social experience. The chapter (re)creates an understanding of art, its agency, and social pedagogy. Art is thus the vessel and modality for re/presentation and self-presentation, where different forms of knowing and feeling matter. The narrative includes a practice of gentle cartography that visualises movement, freedom and corporeity in spaces where children’s agency and creative acts flourish, signalling the stark contrast that exists in other environments where bodies and being are regulated, infringed and dehumanised.