On Tuesday, Chicago artist Kerry Skarbakka staged photographs to recreate the scene of people falling from the Twin Towers on 9/11.

NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, as well as several families of Sept. 11 victims, are upset about Skarbakka's actions.

"What kind of a sick individual is he? Tell him to go jump off the Empire State Building and see how it feels," Rosemarie Giallombardo, whose son Paul Salvio died in the terrorist attack, told the (New York) Daily News. "He's an artist? Go paint a bowl of fruit or something."

It's distasteful, upsetting and eerie. But is it not art? (Via the Houston Chronicle).