Creativity and Material Causality

A divine creator creates Matter ex nihilo.  A human creator cannot create Matter ex nihilo, but still can radically transform Matter so that something that previous was not there is now there.  For example, the organized paint on a canvas was previously on a palette unorganized.  Likewise, the ink on the page of a sheet of Philosophical writing was previously in a well or a cartridge.  Considered relatively ex nihilo, the Matter in these cases functions as a Material Cause.  Such relative Material Causality contributes to a wide range of processes that are factors in manufacturing operations--transforming natural resources to useful products, changes of state, e. g. liquid to gas, and building a machine that consists in a radical complex of parts.  Common to these cases is that despite the wide variety of their products, they are relatively but greatly ex nihilo creations, or, equivalently, examples of relative Material Causality.