Perennial series is a process artwork documenting daily interactions between the artist and a Tagetes lucida plant. Time-lapse photography and stream of consciousness records are kept. Each day, the artist faces the sun and assumes a still position for 15 minutes, physically supporting the plant to receive water from an overhead copper vessel. This provision of nourishment simultaneously facilitates a space for meditative-contemplative thought. The relationships between nourishment, thought, vegetal and human have been examined in detail by philosophers such as Michael Marder (2021), and in the artist Špela Petrič’s imagining of human-vegetal inter-cognition (Confronting Vegetal Otherness: Skotopoiesis 2015).  The focus and attention required to balance the Tagetes lucida elicits a temporal disconnection of the artist from the ‘digital network of consumption-work’. The Tagetes lucida thus trains the artist to be still, facilitating meditative-contemplative thought. The “letting” of thought and entities in Heidegger’s Gelassenheit (1966) is central to the way that thought is understood in Perennial series. This open-ended approach to making and thinking is a rejection of the anthropocentric and calculative instrumentalisation of technology (1977). The planned exhibition of Perennial series is evaluated to assess how digital projection is implemented in a gallery context to train viewer movements. Following Kluszczynski’s “strategy of instrument” (2010), this training is examined as an extension of the existing relationship between the artist and the Tagetes lucida. The virtual space of projected time-lapse photography generates a dialogical relationship between the Tagetes lucida, the artist and the viewer, navigating movements of the body and meditative-contemplative thought. Artworks building meaning in the gallery by directing viewer movements, specifically those Kelomees (2019) classifies as employing “distant interaction” are assessed and critical comparisons are made with Perennial series. The reflexively drawn conclusions resolve how meaning is embedded, shifts and builds through making and viewing Perennial series.