The true character of a making, which does not really consist in producing a thing, but in making possible the appearance of a phenomenon by establishing conditions, can be clarified by going back to Plato’s theory of mimesis.1
1 Cf. my book Platons theoretische Philosophie, Stuttgart 2000. Edition published under licence: Darmstadt 2004, Chapter III.2, ‘Theorie des Bildes’.