Participants on a “toxic tour” of oil operations encounter crude oil for the first time and experience what it means to live amid oil extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon today. Based on ethnographic field research, this artistic contribution illustrates a sensorial confrontation with the contents of a waste pit in the forest. Participants on toxic tours remove oily soil from the ground, squish black leaves between their fingers, and breathe the air polluted by gas flaring as they contemplate what it means to live alongside oil extraction.