Home assistant as photo frame with feed

After moving houses, I am ready to get back to Home Assistant after a few years apart! So, I might have missed the latest developments.

My end goal is to make a photo frame I can cast to a wall-mounted TV, with random photos in the background, and show a feed of cards with various information depending on current states, as well as a clock and weather status.

For picking out and serving photos, I hacked together a small webserver in Python, so that seems like the easy part.

What is more confusing to me, is how to best utilize Lovelace to conditionally show a list of cards overlaid on the photo. It seems like picture-elements is a good start, but I can’t add a vertical stack to it. Am I on the wrong path here? Any alternative suggestions?

Here is an illustration of what I want to achieve:

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