Marc Chagall I and the Village, 1911 The Village and I By Anna Whitaker   The painting A cow, a goat, a ghoul, two people, one on feet, one on head, Six houses, four commonly placed on their bases, Two balancing on pointed roofs, Everything colorful.   The goat is black, blue, pink, red, on its cheek a cow getting milked, a cross necklace on its neck with colorful beads everything abstract.   The ghoul glowing, eerie eyes, following everyone everywhere, hat on head, cross on neck, same as goat's but bigger, bolder Everything original.             the rest is circles, lines, semicircles, a dwarfed evergreen in the ghoul's grasp, some other designs, and various colors in unique arrangements             hidden is a meaning buried deep within the images Why are some things upside down? How were the colors chosen? Why a goat? Why a ghoul? Forever a mystery   I have an idea, that the painter may have been unsure of something, maybe he saw things differently than others, his imagination could have been the cause. Is it an illustration from a dream? Infinite possibilities   Another possibility he was looking at too many things, more than he could handle, getting them all mixed up putting the cow on the goat, turning people and objects upside down   The Village and I