LIVE AND DIE

Hi.
"One Hundred Live and Die" is an artwork by Bruce Nauman composed of one hundred phrases like "LIVE AND DIE", "DIE AND DIE", " AND DIE", " AND DIE", "EAT AND DIE", "LOVE AND DIE", "HATE AND DIE", "SICK AND DIE", "WELL AND DIE", "BLACK AND DIE", "WHITE AND DIE", "RED AND DIE", "YELLOW AND DIE", etc.

I am suspicious if they mean Like "you live and you die, you sleep and you die, you are black and you die etc..." or "living and dying, sleeping and dying, being black and dying etc..." or "do live and do die, do sleep and do die, be black and do die etc..."? It should be noted that this artwork is inspired by an artwork by Robert Indiana that is titles "The Demuth American Dream # 5 (Die, Eat, Hug, Err)".

I think "do live and do die, do sleep and do die, be black and do die etc..." is intended and "The Demuth American Dream # 5 (Die, Eat, Hug, Err)" also means "The Demuth American Dream # 5 (do Die, do Eat, do Hug, do Err)" . As Joan Gibbons in the book Art and Advertising says:
In Nauman’s One Hundred Live and Die, the word constructions all have an instructional tone that has often been adopted in advertising, although, as with Joyce and Beckett, their relationships to one another are pushed to the stage where meaning starts to collide and collapse to a point where, as Nauman himself has put it, ‘poetry and art occurs’.

What is your idea, please?